IPCC Misled The Public For Over A Decade On Emissions
The IPCC has retracted its previous high-end emissions scenario, which was widely used in climate policy and planning. This scenario, known as SSP5-8.5, was deemed implausible by the panel's scenario committee in a recent publication. The implications of this retraction could significantly impact climate-related regulations and financial systems that relied on these projections.
- ▪The IPCC's high-end emissions scenario has been declared implausible by its own scenario committee.
- ▪Governments and corporations have based significant climate policies on the IPCC's previous findings for nearly four decades.
- ▪The scenario SSP5-8.5 accounted for a large portion of references in major climate assessments and studies.
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Playback speed×Share postShare post at current timeShare from 0:000:00/Preview72IPCC Misled The Public For Over A Decade On EmissionsThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has backtracked on an apocalyptic scenario, which had assumed burning five times more coal than is known to existMichael ShellenbergerMay 26, 2026∙ Paid72ShareGovernments, banks, and corporations across the developed world have for nearly four decades treated the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the final word on the science of climate change. The Obama and Biden administrations regulated carbon dioxide as a pollutant on the strength of IPCC findings. The European Union built its emissions trading system around IPCC scenarios.
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