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The Trillion-Dollar “Oops”? Inside the Decision to Drop the Worst-Case Climate Forecast

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Scientific Course Correction: UN-Linked Committee Retires Famous Climate “Doomsday Scenario” As Implausible

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Ridgewood NJ, For more than fifteen years, the most terrifying climate headlines across the globe—warning of rapidly vanishing coastlines, total global crop failures, and civilizational collapse—have relied heavily on a single data baseline. Known in academic circles as RCP8.5 (and its modern successor SSP5-8.5), this extreme scenario was long treated by media and politicians as our definitive, “business-as-usual” future.

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