
“…The post describes how the very extreme climate scenario (called RCP8.5, backstory here) continues to dominate climate research, despite being outdated and misleading. We knew that in 2020. In 2024, even though the climate community well knows that RCP8.5 is outdated and misleading, peer-reviewed studies using the scenario continue to be published at a rate of ~25 per day. Some of these studies are promoted by climate advocates and the media, and just last week the Biden Administration relied on RCP8.5 to justify its LNG export pause. In the original version of the article below, I lamented that there were in 2020 some 17,000+ RCP8.5 studies in the literature. Today that number sits at more than 45,000 — unstoppable momentum indeed!…”