‘climate shock jock Al Gore
Scientific Course Correction: UN-Linked Committee Retires Famous Climate “Doomsday Scenario” As Implausible
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
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.
