Ditching of climate change forecast 'shows science isn't settled', top scientist claims

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Ditching of climate change forecast 'shows science isn't settled', top scientist claims.

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The ditching of the most apocalyptic global warming forecast is proof science is never settled, a climate analyst has said.

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Professor Roger Pielke Jr suggests a "comprehensive reassessment" of both policy and future predictions on climate is now needed.Scientists and the media have long quoted from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) worst-case scenario, which foresaw temperatures soaring by up to 5C, massive sea level rises and global crop failures.Some even predicted it could ultimately bring about extinction events on the scale of the dinosaurs.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say But modellers working for the UN-backed climate body, which provides climate change information to governments, now say the chances of this worst-case scenario actually happening are "negligible".

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They say that "recent emission trends" and the lower cost of renewables have helped rule it out.

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