Thread by @RogerPielkeJr

🚨New pub🚨

How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality
A failure of self-correction in science has compromised climate science’s ability to provide plausible views of our collective future
by me & @jritch
@ISSUESinST (online 7/26)

Read it here now: drive.google.com/file/d/11UMwQ7…

This is a tl;dr update of this 21k-word paper:

Pielke Jr, R., & Ritchie, J. (2021). Distorting the view of our climate future: The misuse and abuse of climate pathways and scenarios. Energy Research & Social Science.
doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

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We view the "stubborn commitment to error" in the continued use of outdated climate scenarios "as one of the most significant failures of scientific integrity in the twenty-first century thus far"

And that's because climate change is real & important

You don't have to be a rocket scientist or even a climate scientist to see how massively far out of touch with reality are the highest priority scenarios being used in climate research to inform policy

There are excuses but no good ones for this stubborn commitment to error

There will be more to say

Many thanks to the incredible @ISSUESinST which takes editing seriously (rare in publishing these days) & helped to make this article far better than otherwise would have been

And our article is beautifully illustrated as well

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