In this factcheck, Carbon Brief looks at Trump’s comments, the debate around RCP8.5 and the “good” and “bad” news within the latest scenarios.
Climate scientists discarded an extreme global warming model frequently cited by news outlets in April after its predictions ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has admitted that its worst-case carbon emissions scenario, RCP 8.5, is implausible and has been scrapped. This scenario served as the foundation ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off ...
A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb ...
For nearly 20 years, a hidden assumption inside a climate computer model has been scaring the hope for a good future out of ...
The worst-case scenarios that guide the work of climate scientists and feed into the major reports of the Intergovernmental ...
A new generation of climate scenarios has set aside RCP8.5, which projected a nearly 5°C rise in global temperatures by 2100.
What comes next will depend on us.
President Trump last weekend on Truth Social said “good riddance” to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Researchers developed a rating system to evaluate the plausibility of climate model simulations in the IPCC's latest report, and show that models that lead to potentially catastrophic warming are to ...
President Trump blasts Democratic climate policies after scientists move away from one of the most extreme UN-backed global ...