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Investors Business Daily says that Doomsday just got cancelled. Mother Jones says it’s more accurate, less terrible. And the Washington Times says

Landmark study debunks UN’s worst-case global-warming scenarios

A groundbreaking British study throws cold water on the U.N.’s most extreme climate-change scenarios, finding little chance that the planet will heat up by 4 to 5 degrees over the next century.

The UN International Panel on Climate Change has predicted for 25 years that global temperatures are likely to increase between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, but the latest research narrows the range to 2.2-3.4 degrees Celsius.

“Our study all but rules out very low and very high climate sensitivities, so we now know much better what we need to,” said University of Exeter professor Peter M. Cox, the lead author of the study, in a press release.

Of course, on the flip side, they are prognosticating a higher low end range, based on doubling of CO2 levels, which in itself is controversial, due to the greenhouse gas potential of CO2 being not as powerful as Warmists maintain when doubled. Furthermore, they are, of course, blaming this all on Mankind.

The research also has implications for the climate-change movement, said University of Colorado Boulder professor Roger A. Pielke Jr.

“If your climate advocacy is grounded in ‘[it’s] gonna be bad, really bad’ arguments, then new science (‘not as bad’) puts you in an awkward position,” he said on Twitter. “No doubt some catastrophists will today feel a need to diss the new study lest they give evil deniers due.”

Based on some of the other articles on this, the study authors are still saying that Government needs to Do Something to limit CO2 output. Too bad most of us won’t be around in 2100 to say “I told you this was all mule fritters!”