RCP8.5 Is Officially Dead — and No One Retracts the Headlines
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In April 2026, the Copernicus journal Geoscientific Model Development publishes a methodological overview paper that goes virtually unreported in mainstream climate coverage. Author: Detlef van Vuuren and the CMIP7 ScenarioMIP consortium — the official working group that defines the emissions scenarios on which the next IPCC assessment cycle, and global climate modelling more broadly, will be built.