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Even the UN knows that AGW is a bunch of hooey.
Meanwhile, his own IPCC has commissioned four models to predict the impact of global warming in this century. The verdict: There's nothing to worry about.
Matt Ridley, writing in the Financial Post, said the models were run to determine "what might happen to the world economy, society and technology in the 21st century and what each would mean for the climate, given a certain assumption about the atmosphere's 'sensitivity' to carbon dioxide."
Ridley, a science and economics writer as well as a member of the British Parliament, added: "Three of the models show a moderate, slow and mild warming, the hottest of which leaves the planet just two degrees Centigrade warmer than today in 2081-2100. The coolest comes out just 0.8 degrees warmer."
Ridley notes that "two degrees is the threshold at which warming starts to turn dangerous, according to the scientific consensus. That is to say, in three of the four scenarios considered by the IPCC, by the time my children's children are elderly, the earth will still not have experienced any harmful warming, let alone catastrophe."
The fourth scenario produces a stifling 3.5 degrees of warming in the 2081-2100 period. But is it worth upsetting ourselves? Ridley assures us it's not. That figure, he says, is "very, very implausible."
Why? Because the researchers fed the model with a lot of garbage "highly unlikely assumptions," says Ridley such as a world burning 10 times more coal, a population boom that the U.N. doesn't expect and current growth rates can't produce, and a lack of innovation....
Even The U.N.'s Climate Group Says There's No Need To Worry - Investors.com
Meanwhile, his own IPCC has commissioned four models to predict the impact of global warming in this century. The verdict: There's nothing to worry about.
Matt Ridley, writing in the Financial Post, said the models were run to determine "what might happen to the world economy, society and technology in the 21st century and what each would mean for the climate, given a certain assumption about the atmosphere's 'sensitivity' to carbon dioxide."
Ridley, a science and economics writer as well as a member of the British Parliament, added: "Three of the models show a moderate, slow and mild warming, the hottest of which leaves the planet just two degrees Centigrade warmer than today in 2081-2100. The coolest comes out just 0.8 degrees warmer."
Ridley notes that "two degrees is the threshold at which warming starts to turn dangerous, according to the scientific consensus. That is to say, in three of the four scenarios considered by the IPCC, by the time my children's children are elderly, the earth will still not have experienced any harmful warming, let alone catastrophe."
The fourth scenario produces a stifling 3.5 degrees of warming in the 2081-2100 period. But is it worth upsetting ourselves? Ridley assures us it's not. That figure, he says, is "very, very implausible."
Why? Because the researchers fed the model with a lot of garbage "highly unlikely assumptions," says Ridley such as a world burning 10 times more coal, a population boom that the U.N. doesn't expect and current growth rates can't produce, and a lack of innovation....
Even The U.N.'s Climate Group Says There's No Need To Worry - Investors.com
