El IPCC jubila sus escenarios más apocalípticos tras 15 años de titulares alarmistas

For more than a decade, many of the most alarmist news stories about climate change shared a common element. Whether they depicted cities submerged beneath the sea, soaring temperatures, or planetary catastrophes at the end of the century, the same protagonist always appeared behind many of those headlines: a climate scenario known as RCP8.5. Now, the very scientific system responsible for developing the scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just acknowledged that those extreme hypotheses are no longer plausible. In other words, the scenarios that fueled thousands of studies, reports, and headlines for years have been officially retired.