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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Piece by James Delingpole

So the cat's out of the bag. More "experts" that turn out to be nothing of the kind.

You might want to read this statement from the people who wrote the paper Delingpole is referring to. I'll even save you a click.

A number of media reports have asserted that our recent study in Nature Geoscience indicates that global temperatures are not rising as fast as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and hence that action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is no longer urgent.

Both assertions are false.

Our results are entirely in line with the IPCC’s 2013 prediction that temperatures in the 2020s would be 0.9-1.3 degrees above pre-industrial (See figures 2c and 3a of our article which show the IPCC prediction, our projections, and temperatures of recent years).

What we have done is to update the implications for the amount of carbon dioxide we can still emit while expecting global temperatures to remain below the Paris Climate Agreement goal of 1.5 degrees. We find that, to likely meet the Paris goal, emission reductions would need to begin immediately and reach zero in less than 40 years’ time.

While that is not geophysically impossible, to suggest that this means that measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are now unnecessary is clearly false.

Delingpole put himself forward as a parliamentary candidate in 2012 on an anti-wind farm ticket before withdrawing. He has been attacking anthropomorphic climate change since at least 2009. The article you link is a comment piece and the bias is abundantly clear.

Delingpole is misrepresenting the science to fit his own agenda. He's a conservative libertarian so objects to any government intervention. I very much enjoyed his attacking the renewables industry while he hasn't a word to say about the far larger fossil fuels industry, or that fossil fuels receive subsidies worldwide of more than 3 times the annual value he claims the renewables industry has. The renewables industry is apparently making a small cabal super rich while, of course, nothing like that happens in the fossil fuels industry.

He hasn't a clue what he's talking about and makes a series of absurd statements. The man should probably stick to using his English Literature and Language degree and writing rather than trying to second-guess climate scientists. It's odd when people are happy to believe a man like this, apparently unconditionally, without doing any kind of reading into the matter or bias on his part, but I guess confirmation bias is powerful.