New York Times Publishes Story Admitting Climate Doomsday Predictions May Have Been Overblown

The New York Times on Tuesday acknowledged the rollback of an extreme global warming scenario it previously used as headline fodder.

The New York Times addressed doomsday model Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5.’s (“RCP 8.5”) rescission in “Why Scientists Retired The Dire Climate Scenario Used For Over A Decade.” The New York Times published numerous alarmist headlines based on RCP 8.5 since it debuted in August 2011.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found in April that RCP 8.5 and other comparable climate models “have become implausible.” Some critics argued the model depended on unrealistic coal consumption numbers and was implausible when first released.

The NYT ran articles with headlines such as “The Great Climate Migration Has Begun” and “How Climate Migration Will Reshape America” in 2020, seemingly justifying mass migration on the basis of global warming.

“The stark policy choices are already becoming apparent. As refugees stream out of the Middle East and North Africa into Europe and from Central America into the United States, an anti-immigrant backlash has propelled nationalist governments into power around the world,” the former article reads. “The alternative, driven by a better understanding of how and when people will move, is governments that are actively preparing, both materially and politically, for the greater changes to come.”