Wait! I Thought The Science Was Settled!

 I guess the folks at Science (the journal) don't think so.

 "Whatever happens at the global green gabfest in Durban, greens will, no doubt, take comfort in assuring themselves that science is on their side.

Well, not quite. It seems that Science – that is, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential scientific journals — is open to doubts about some of the more dire premises regularly trotted out by green hactivists to justify their doomsday predictions.

The Economist reports on some new cutting-edge climate research published in a peer-reviewed article in Science that challenges some core green doom warnings.  In particular, the study suggests that the probable sensitivity of the earth’s climate to increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is far lower than the assumptions traditionally used by the (already discredited) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Not only that, the authors find that the existence of a so-called “fat tail” — the notion that extreme temperature changes in response to increases in atmospheric CO2 are likely — is illusory."

 H/T: Instapundit