SHOT: US government’s grim climate summary draft gets unofficially published.

It has been four years, and the next report’s draft has been completed and has undergone scientific vetting.

The draft paints a grim picture of how the US is already dealing with a variety of issues related to climate change and how much worse most of those issues will get during the coming decades. And the report places the blame squarely on humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions.

This message won’t go over well with the administration of President Donald Trump, which has a number of members who are openly hostile to the scientific community’s conclusions.

Goodness.

But…

CHASER: ‘Dodgy’ greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord.

Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy.

However, the Italian submission to the UN records just a tiny amount of the substance being emitted.
Levels of some emissions from India and China are so uncertain that experts say their records are plus or minus 100%.

These flaws posed a bigger threat to the Paris climate agreement than US President Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw, researchers told BBC Radio 4’s Counting Carbon programme.

It’s almost as though all of this scientific certainty is just a gussied-up modern religion providing cover for old-fashioned statism.