Trump gloats after scientists say worst climate scenario ‘implausible’ | US | News

President Donald Trump struck a triumphant tone late Saturday after scientists backed away from the most catastrophic climate change projection and reclassified it as “implausible.”

The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has overhauled its modeling framework and abandoned its previous doomsday climate scenario, which predicted 4.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

Those behind the revised global warming forecasts no longer find the once-feared scenario credible. While Trump celebrated the developments on social media, he also targeted Democratic climate policies.

“Good luck! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” would destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee admitted that their predictions (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” Trump pointed out Truth Social.

The IPCC’s most extreme climate change scenario has previously predicted rising global temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread crop failures, melting glaciers and more; Some climate scientists have even expressed concern about potential extinction-level events.

The scientists, whose findings were published in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, revised the high emissions scenario to predict a warming of 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2100.

“For too long, Climate Activism has been used by Democrats to scare Americans, push terrible Energy Policies, and fund billions of dollars in bogus research programs,” he continued. Trump concluded: “Unlike the Dumocrats who use the Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and TRUTH! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

At the UN General Assembly in New York last September, Trump called climate change a “fraud.” He said: “All these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong… They were made by stupid people who cost their countries fortunes and gave those same countries no chance of success.”

Trump’s stance on environmental policy is perhaps best summed up in his famous slogan “Drill, Baby, Drill,” which has become synonymous with his ambition to expand fossil fuel production while dismantling environmental protections and regulations.

On the first day of his second term in office, Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement for the second time, declared a “national energy emergency” and began rolling back what he described as “ideologically motivated regulations.” His administration also froze and cut funding to vital scientific institutions across the country, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation.

Why was the most extreme climate scenario revised?

The researchers behind the study concluded that the worst-case climate scenario becomes “unreasonable given trends in renewable energy costs, the emergence of climate policy and recent emissions trends.” According to the study, the high emissions scenario “explores a future world that weakens or even abandons mitigation actions and policies, along with other development trends that could lead to high emissions.

“The scenario is based on trends that are very unlikely (based on current assessment) but still plausible,” the researchers wrote.

Such a scenario could become plausible in the event of “profound political, technological and structural departure from current trends.”

In essence, a significant reversal of progress on affordable renewable energy and worldwide policy efforts to combat climate change could bring the most extreme climate scenario back into play. Although the most alarming climate predictions have been ignored, scientists continue to warn that the threat of climate change is very real.

“The risks of climate change have not gone away,” climate scientist and lead author of the study Detlef Van Vuuren told The Associated Press. “The good news is that we haven’t followed the most dramatic emissions path. But we are still moving towards a future with significant impacts on climate, a future we should avoid.”