NAS on National Climate Assessment: ‘If the draft cannot get these facts right and if it glosses over model capabilities and limitations, then one must be skeptical of its outcomes’

So skepticism is okay after all.

“That is, floods are both a natural phenomenon and a human phenomenon (land use, water management etc.) Although the draft has lots of
waffling words (‘suggests,’ ‘possible’ ‘contributed’ etc.) the fact is that the public will ignore these nuanced phrases and come away with the impression that floods will increase.”

EU climate change policy in crisis after MEPs vote against high CO2 prices - Telegraph

The European Union's climate change policy is on the brink of collapse today after MEPs torpedoed Europe's flagship CO2 emissions trading scheme by voting against a measure to support the price of carbon permits.

NAS on National Climate Assessment: ‘By overemphasizing the role of climate change, the report may encourage one-sided solutions’ | JunkScience.com

“Multiple stressors are critical, but by taking such a climate-centric perspective, the report distorts the reality of these complex stressors and inadvertently sets up a perspective that reducing emissions will “solve” these problems.”

NAS on National Climate Assessment: ‘The report is amazingly optimistic about the quality of the regional-scale projections’ | JunkScience.com

“The present CMIP process shows that the variability between the models within a scenario is as large as the variations between scenarios. When you go beyond temperature into variables such as precipitation, the models diverge even more and that they cannot replicate the observational record on a regional scale.”