06/02/2026
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗨𝗽 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼
Climate projections don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re built on assumptions about how much carbon pollution humanity will emit over the coming decades. Those assumptions are formalized as Representative Concentration Pathways, or RCPs, each describing a different trajectory of greenhouse gas concentrations through 2100. RCP8.5, the highest of these pathways, assumed a dramatic and sustained expansion of fossil fuel use well into the next century. For years it served as the default “high-end” input across a wide range of climate impact work, from global temperature modeling to infrastructure risk assessments and coastal planning. It is now being retired from future climate modeling cycles... (Click the article to read more on the Brizaga Blog)
https://brizaga.com/climate-scenarios-rcp85-coastal-planning/
Co-Written by: Sharai Lewis-Gruss (Director of Community Resilience) & Alec Bogdanoff, Ph.D. (Principal) at Brizaga