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New study from British scientists: OK, maybe climate change isn't that dire a threat after all

By Dan Calabrese ——--September 20, 2017

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You are required to believe this. It's science. Science! That is incontrovertible. You can fully expect the entire American left to immediately disavow their previous predictions of worldwide calamity, because science now says otherwise. OK, they're not going to do that. But you can probably relax:
Climate change poses less of an immediate threat to the planet than previously thought because scientists got their modelling wrong, a new study has found. New research by British scientists reveals the world is being polluted and warming up less quickly than 10-year-old forecasts predicted, giving countries more time to get a grip on their carbon output. An unexpected “revolution” in affordable renewable energy has also contributed to the more positive outlook. Experts now say there is a two-in-three chance of keeping global temperatures within 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the ultimate goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement. They also condemned the “overreaction” to the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, announced by Donald Trump in June, saying it is unlikely to make a significant difference. According to the models used to draw up the agreement, the world ought now to be 1.3 degrees above the mid-19th-Century average, whereas the most recent observations suggest it is actually between 0.9 to 1 degree above. The discrepancy means nations could continue emitting carbon dioxide at the current rate for another 20 years before the target was breached, instead of the three to five predicted by the previous model.
“When you are talking about a budget of 1.5 degrees, then a 0.3 degree difference is a big deal”, said Professor Myles Allen, of Oxford University and one of the authors of the new study. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, it suggests that if polluting peaks and then declines to below current levels before 2030 and then continue to drop more sharply, there is a 66 per cent chance of global average temperatures staying below 1.5 degrees.
Now you'd think the left would greet this as wonderful news. They're the ones who've been running around saying we're all doomed because of global warming, so new information to suggest we are not should come as huge relief and cause for celebration. That is not what's going to happen. This is the worst-case scenario for the left. Here's why: What this study means is that any risk from global warming is already being mitigated by things happening naturally without any intervention from government. This is one of the points I've been making for years. I am not a climate scientist, so I don't claim to say authoritatively what's going to happen in the future. But what I do believe strongly is that the left's proposed "solutions" to the problem are unacceptable. What are these solutions? Higher taxes and stiffer regulation of industry, of course. In other words, all the things they want anyway.

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That's all global warming has ever been for the left - an excuse to insist that we must have the policies they left already wants or we're going to die. My position on global warming has always been that, whether it's real or not, any action to address it would have to come from innovations of the private sector - better technology, better ways to generate energy, but not bigger governmentt. This study indicates that's exactly what's already happening, and as a result the models have to be adjusted to reflect that the risk is not what was previously though. So we're not doomed, and the reason is things that are happening on their own without government forcing it, or raising taxes, or controlling industry. To the left, this means their excuse to do all these things is gone. Now, of course, they will find a new excuse for why we must do all this or die. They always do. But the horse they've been riding for 25 years is now crashing and burning, and when people realize that it's going to be a lot harder for them to sell the same old nonsense to the general public - no matter how hard the media tries to a) bury this study; and b) help them with their next gambit. You can only shove so much B.S. in people's faces before they start to recognize what it smells like.
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