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The IPCC: Can it regain its credibility?
A critical examination of climate science risk assessments and the growing challenge from global actuaries
Critics of the IPCC see it as being far too slow, always several years behind the reality of what's happening on the front line of our changing climate, and far too susceptible to brutish political pressure from petrostates and the fossil fuel industry. We can expect a lot more of this, with guidance from endless morally bankrupt asset managers and banks about “how to operate profitably as temperatures soar and climate impacts worsen”—how the rich can go on making themselves richer off the end of life on Earth. And just in case you've already relegated to the back of your mind that analysis from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, let me remind you that in a 2°C warmer world, GDP will contract by more than 25%, with “mass human mortality events resulting in over 2 billion deaths.”
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