🎙️ GWPF In Conversation is a new podcast from the GWPF featuring discussions with leading climate and energy experts, policymakers, and thinkers. Each episode explores key issues shaping our energy future, from climate policy to global energy security, with informed perspectives and thoughtful debate.
Episode 2: The Death of RCP8.5
For years the “climate emergency” narrative has been fuelled by a misleading scenario which was claimed to show what would happen if the world failed to reduce its emissions.
This climate scenario, known as RCP8.5, fuelled catastrophist coverage of climate change in the media and shaped national climate strategies used by public bodies. Today, the UN’s IPCC brands it “implausible”.
In the GWPF’s latest podcast, Roger Pielke Jr. discusses how the scientific consensus reached this point, after years of fearmongering.