There really is a "climate emergency" ...

"It is now almost a third of a century since 1990, when the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made its first predictions about the weather," Christopher Monckton reminds us.

So, since they're meeting again in what they call COP27, and gain making apocalyptic predictions about the decades ahead, let's see how their first third-century of crystal-ball gazing has gone.

What did they say in 1990?

Under the IPCC Business-as-Usual (Scenario A) emissions of greenhouse gases ... [t]his will result in a likely increase in global mean temperature of about 1 C° above the present value... [and 1.8 C° warming from preindustrial times to 2030."

=> This translates to 0.3-0.34 C°/decade medium-term warming. However, since 1990 only 0.14 C°/decade has occurred.

That's not what you'd call highly competent weather forecasting: while oft proclaiming that warming is far worse than they've been predicting, instead it's been less than half as much!

And their predictive power is even worse than it looks:

IPCC’s business-as-usual scenario was founded on the assumption that on business as usual CO2 emissions would increase by 10-20% by 2025. The truth, however, is that it is only 2022 and yet global CO2 emissions are not 20% above their 1990 level but 60% above it ...

Does this sort of error matter?

This matters. For global climate policy is based not on the unexciting observed reality, which is that in the real world global warming is slow, small, harmless and net-beneficial, but on IPCC’s and the models’ wildly exaggerated predictions, which have not been cut back to bring them into some sort of conformity with mere reality.

Based solely on these failing predictions, for example, we keep hearing that we are in a "crisis," that this is an "emergency," that (though not so much anymore) this is our "nuclear-free moment."

And yet, even on this allegedly. overheating planet, one is ten times as likely to die from cold weather rather than hot, that in general extreme weather is if anything decreasing rather than increasing, and that over the last century climate disaster deaths have decreased by 98%.

Even "the most plausible danger of rising CO2 levels and temps, rapid sea level rises that would destroy coastal investments," are only predicted by the bad predictors "to reach 3 feet in 100 years" -- and that's the most extreme of their predictions. Future, wealthier, generations can master that.

But there really is an emergency. The fake climate emergency has created a very real energy emergency.

The false idea that fossil fuels' climate impacts are an "emergency" that requires us to rapidly eliminate fossil fuels has caused an energy emergency ... [in which] skyrocketing energy prices are driving price inflation in every area of life.... the worst-affected are poor nations—who are getting outbid for today’s scarce energy supplies.

As Alex Epstein reminds us.

Today’s high fossil fuel prices are not primarily a “Putin price hike.”
They are caused by global anti-fossil-fuel “climate emergency” policies—which made fossil fuel prices artificially high before Putin’s war and prevented the free world from quickly increasing production in response.

Yes, it is galling seeing the same climate warriors who created this very real energy emergency winging their way to a resort in Egypt in order to berate all the rest of us to wear an energy hairshirt. Just remember when their carefully crafted headline predictions emerge how bad they've already been, yet how disastrous the emergency they've created.