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In fact there are no predictions by IPCC at all. And there never have been. The IPCC instead proffers “what if” projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios...

There is no estimate, even probabilistically, as to the likelihood of any emissions scenario and no best guess.

Even if there were, the projections are based on model results that provide differences of the future climate relative to that today. None of the models used by IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate

the problem of overcoming this shortcoming, and facing up to initializing climate models means not only obtaining sufficient reliable observations of all aspects of the climate system, but also overcoming model biases. So this is a major challenge.

The IPCC instead proffers “what if” projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios.

In 1988, former Canadian Minister of the Environment, told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald: “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.

IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer, speaking in November 2010, advised that: “…one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth...”

I'd be obliged if you could share your source. That's indeed interesting.

a voluntary crippling of our economy

See, that;s interesting right there. The reading I've done about it and the politicians I've heard that make sense, all say that a gradual but purposeful shift toward clean energy industries would help,not hurt the economy.
Especially in the long term.

Nailed It: ABC Predicted NYC Would be Under Water from Climate Change by 2015

That wasn’t all ABC News thought would be going on by 2015 as predicted in its 2008 news special entitled Earth 2100. As Newsbusters’ Scott Witlock reports, the news department also claimed that by 2015 we’d be paying $9 per gallon for gasoline, that milk would cost $13 a gallon, and that many other parts of the US would be under water thanks to that “settled science.”

ABC wasn’t done with the doomsaying, either. Here in the real 2015 researchers estimate that there are about 7.125 billion people on the planet. But in 2008 ABC was sure that by its assumed 2015 the earth’s population would have dwindled to a mere 2.7 billion due to food shortages, clean water shortages, wars, and increased temperatures.

There's an old book called "When Prophecy Fails." It documents the activities of a cult that they were in special communications with alien who were going to come save them, and them alone, from the evils of earth and mankind.

They even announced the exact time and place where the spaceship would land, and all the followers disposed on all their worldly good, deeding their houses to charities, and ****, and got in line to board the ship. For some reason, God only knows what reason, but some damn reason. That ship never came.

You are describing the USA, layman.

When is the last time the US gave Japan a ride to a rumble?

Why would all those US scientific bodies keep saying what they are saying, Baldimo? Why would NASA keep up that "lie"?

There actually some scientists who are independent still in the US.