The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released yet another doom and gloom forecast for climate change over the weekend. The Washington Post brings the bad news: “The Earth is locked on an ‘irreversible’ course of climatic disruption from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the impacts will only worsen unless nations agree to dramatic cuts in pollution.” How bad is it? “The planet faces a future of extreme weather, rising sea levels and melting polar ice from soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases, the U.N. panel said. Only an unprecedented global effort to slash emissions within a relatively short time period will prevent temperatures from crossing a threshold that scientists say could trigger far more dangerous disruptions, the panel warned.” But given this dire prediction, what chance do we have? Not much. “The report said some impacts of climate change will ‘continue for centuries,’ even if all emissions from fossil-fuel burning were to stop [emphasis added].” So even if all emissions are stopped – nay, even if we submitted to merely “unprecedented” efforts to slash emissions – the globe is still going to go up in smoke. Call us Science™-hating deniers, but we think this report might be just a tad alarmist. More…