For years, corporate media has been peddling the IPCC’s RCP8.5-fuelled terror - now that there has been a massive course correction, a semi-retraction of it, silence.
RCP8.5 is a high-emissions climate scenario used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (“AR5”) published in 2014 to model future climate change. In April this year, the hammer was dropped on this doomsday scenario and declared “implausible.”
Although corporate media have publicised the IPCC’s implausible scenario for years, when it is corrected, they ignore it. The reason for the media blackout is not hard to fathom. “These outlets built empires on existential dread. Admitting the favourite scare tool was nonsense risks exposing the hype machine,” Stephen Heins writes. [Read More]
Although corporate media have publicised the IPCC’s implausible scenario for years, when it is corrected, they ignore it. The reason for the media blackout is not hard to fathom. “These outlets built empires on existential dread. Admitting the favourite scare tool was nonsense risks exposing the hype machine,” Stephen Heins writes. [Read More]
