HE FOUND THE MISSING VARIABLE IN JANUARY. THE IPCC PANEL ASKED HIM TO WAIT EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE TREATIES HAD ALREADY BEEN SIGNED.

In January 2018, Dr. Matthias Chen discovered that the permafrost methane feedback loop, excluded from climate models since 1990, becomes exponential above 1.8°C rather than the previously accepted 2.5°C. This critical oversight affected treaty negotiations involving thirty-one countries, depriving them of accurate climate targets.