Paraphrasing Feynman: “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or how beautiful your theories, or how elegant your computer models or how many people agree with you or how many scientists form a political consensus, if it doesn’t agree with experiment and reality, it’s wrong.” -Edward Podritske
WE WERE WRONG, CLIMATE SCIENTISTS CONCEDE
- Ben Webster, The Times
Catastrophic impacts of climate change can still be avoided, according to scientists who have admitted they were too pessimistic about the chances of limiting global warming.
The world has warmed more slowly than had been predicted by computer models, which were “on the hot side” and overstated the impact of emissions on average temperature, research has found.
New forecasts suggest that the world has a better chance than claimed of meeting the goal set by the Paris Agreement on climate change of limiting warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The study, published in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, makes clear that rapid reductions in emissions will still be required but suggests that the world has more time to make the necessary changes.
Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change at University College London and one of the…
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