Canada's 2001 Climate Predictions Revisited
12 Jun 2023 | Crystal Ball
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The “Canada Action Plan” Crystal Ball Check Revisited transcript
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/video...revisited/
John Robson:
For the Climate Discussion Nexus, I’m John Robson with another trip down memory lane, to Canada’s definitive 2001 climate change assessment and action plan. And also to our second-most-popular video, “Canada’s 2001 climate predictions. How did they do?“, which has had 400,000 views since being released in June 2019, and which we think some of our newer viewing and reading friends might have missed and might appreciate.
The main point here is that, if governments don’t know what’s happening, they can’t possibly know what to do about it. But it’s also important to note that if they were as sure 20 years ago as they are today, and were completely clueless back then, it calls into serious question how solid their understanding is today.
This video looks at the disastrously wrong predictions the Canadian government made about climate change at the turn of the century based on the climate models that they’d spent many millions of dollars developing. It was on the basis of those predictions that they wanted to convince the nation to rally behind their costly and impractical plans to slash energy use. Because, as we show, the predictions weren’t just wrong, they were all wrong in the same direction. There was a systemic bias in the direction of creating the impression of a climate crisis that the data just didn’t show.
12 Jun 2023 | Crystal Ball
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The “Canada Action Plan” Crystal Ball Check Revisited transcript
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/video...revisited/
John Robson:
For the Climate Discussion Nexus, I’m John Robson with another trip down memory lane, to Canada’s definitive 2001 climate change assessment and action plan. And also to our second-most-popular video, “Canada’s 2001 climate predictions. How did they do?“, which has had 400,000 views since being released in June 2019, and which we think some of our newer viewing and reading friends might have missed and might appreciate.
The main point here is that, if governments don’t know what’s happening, they can’t possibly know what to do about it. But it’s also important to note that if they were as sure 20 years ago as they are today, and were completely clueless back then, it calls into serious question how solid their understanding is today.
This video looks at the disastrously wrong predictions the Canadian government made about climate change at the turn of the century based on the climate models that they’d spent many millions of dollars developing. It was on the basis of those predictions that they wanted to convince the nation to rally behind their costly and impractical plans to slash energy use. Because, as we show, the predictions weren’t just wrong, they were all wrong in the same direction. There was a systemic bias in the direction of creating the impression of a climate crisis that the data just didn’t show.