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jim peden's avatar

I wonder if someone who is a Climate Impact Researcher which I assume means the effect of postulated climate variations on humans is actually qualified to pronounce on climate change which is (or should be) about the physics of climate.

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Jaime Jessop's avatar

It's a fraud. The basis of the UK climate change impacts and risks assessment, chaired by Richard Betts, are the UK climate projections 2018. They model climate change using models which have far too high climate sensitivities, using unrealistic high end projections of greenhouse gas emissions (RCP8.5) and then investigate the supposed environmental, social and economic impacts of these physical changes in climate. Then they report to the government, as required by the Climate Change Act 2008. Nice 'work' if you can get it.

"UKCP Probabilistic (25km) and Marine projections cover a range of future scenarios. UKCP Global (60km), Regional (12km) and Local (2.2km) focus on a high (RCP8.5) greenhouse gas emission scenario, but users can extract results at different warming levels including, 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 4 °C."

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/metofficegovuk/pdf/research/ukcp/ukcp18_headline_findings_v4_aug22.pdf

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Gary Sharpe's avatar

Why am I not surprised. Maybe the silver lining of this, is that whenever the do this, they are helping to raise the profile of the thing they are trying to censor [I think its called the Streisand Effect?]

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