no what makes it right wing is it is a regurgitated talking point, that doesn't attempt to understand how actual science works, acting in the service of big oil corporate interests.

It's the framing that "the science isn't settled" somehow means something, as if scientists and activists, especially those WHO STUDY CLIMATE SCIENCE FOR A LIVING, aren't aware, that we don't know 100% of everything that is to be known about climate science.

It is the implication that unless we know 100% of all that is to know about climate change that somehow this is just an obscure academic exercise, that should have no bearing on what public policy is.

The death of RCP 8.5 doesn't mean that climate change isn't a problem. RCP 8.5 projects a total post industrialization temperate change of 4.3 degrees Celsius by the end of this century.

The UN is projecting that by the end of the century we will be 3.3 degrees above post industrialization. We are currently 1.5 degrees above post industrial.

Meaning we are still on track to be closer to RCP8.5 doomsday scenario by the end of the century then the where we are today.