Climate Scenario Corrections Strengthen, Not Weaken, the Case for Rapid Action in Europe
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Jason Bordoff, Noah Kaufman
Summary
The article examines recent climate science developments — including the scrapping of the most extreme climate scenario (RCP 8.5), the retraction of a high-profile economic damage study, and a new paper questioning the ability to quantify climate damages — and argues that these scientific reassessments actually strengthen, not weaken, the case for rapid climate action. It explores how the media and public have misinterpreted these corrections as evidence that climate change is less serious, when in fact the science continues to point toward urgent action, particularly for Europe which faces acute climate risks.
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· 3 pulledScientists preparing the next generation of global climate scenarios scrapped the most extreme pathway that had shaped years of academic research, financial risk analysis, media coverage, and advocacy.
A prominent study estimating that climate change would cost the global economy $38 trillion per year by midcentury was retracted by the academic journal Nature.
A new study argued that meaningful estimates of climate change's economic damages lie beyond our analytical capabilities.
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