It seems that the UN is taking a lesson from the US Congress in that their reports like the bills from Congress are getting longer and longer. At almost 4,000 pages, I was amazed to hear, within minutes of its release, a list of its conclusions, all of which were dire for humanity. One report even said that if we stopped all energy related activity, the environment would continue to degrade until at least 2050!
Fortunately, responsible individuals (which seems to exclude most reporters) have had an opportunity to read the report and they are now stepping up with their analysis. In the article linked below, some key bits of information are revealed which somehow managed to be ignored by the talking-heads of the news agencies. Poor modeling, comparisons to past activities in the past, the slowing of trends, etc. are revealed while the UN report also downplays the ability to forecast hurricanes and other weather activity with the technology and computer models currently in use. As Holman Jenkins writes in the WSJ (8/10/21), “Green subsidies as now designed will have no effect on emissions and therefore, no effect on climate change”. But hey, they feel good to many people and isn’t virtue signaling enough?
Hopefully, the UN report will be read more fully and be a point from which more realistic options for dealing with our environment will be adopted; but I doubt it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/intergovernmental-panel-climate-change-ipcc-un-united-nations-global-warming-floods-wildfire-stevens-palmer-koonin-11628631428?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
