Alarmists like claiming that a bit of global warming can lead to mass-scale species extinctions and even threatens the very survival of human civilization. It’s one of the media’s favorite scare stories after sea level rise and super storms.
It turns out that the IPCC is now having “great doubts” about that. Yet another scare-story gets debunked!
Yesterday online journalist Axel Bojanowski at Spiegel here reports in a piece titled: Secret UN Report: IPCC Doubts Prognoses On Species Extinction.
According to information obtained by Spiegel, the UN body “is now sowing astonishingly great doubt over its earlier predictions.”
Online Spiegel writes that scientists are now distancing themselves from their previous projections, and quotes the IPCC:
There is very little confidence in the models accurately predicting the extinction risks.”
Spiegel reports of an “acute lack of data” and that “biological findings have increased doubt over the expected species extinction“.
Thus far, the IPCC admits, there has been no evidence showing that climate change has led to the extinction of a single species. […] With most life forms there’s a lack of data, says Ragnar Kinzelbach of the University of Rostock.”
Kinzelbach then says that climate change has been used as an excuse for inaction in other more urgent areas:
“Monocultures, over-fertilization or soil destruction destroy more species than do several degrees Celsius of temperature rise ever could.”