Science At Odds With Itself on Climate Change

(NEW YORK CITY, NY) Even something as clear and exact as science is having a difficult time with man-made climate change. On Monday, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General warned leaders not to come to his landmark Climate Action Summit with beautiful speeches, but to present concrete plans for cutting harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050. At the same time, however, a group of scientists and professionals in climate and related fields sent a letter to the UN declaring that “there is no climate emergency.” The letter states that current climate policies undermine the economic system and put lives at risk by denying countries affordable energy. At a press briefing accompanying the letter, the scientists point out that the warming projected by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show temperature increases four times higher than the warming that was actually observed. The IPCC has previously said its climate models can’t be used to accurately predict long-term changes in the climate.