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Despite Climategate, IPPC Mostly Underestimates Climate Change
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement1 of Science, James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted2 that the IPCC usually errs3 on the conservative side. Steve Mirsky reports
Lost in the coverage4 of the so-called climategate email controversy5 is a key point about the IPCC’s track record of climate change estimates. James McCarthy is on the faculty6 of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment. He spoke7 February 21st at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego:
“If you were to go back and map the IPCC projection8 for sea level rise and temperature in 1990, look at it in 1995, look at it in 2000. In retrospect9 you would find that they were conservative. So we talk about errors. If you were to do two ledgers—here are IPCC overestimates12, here are IPCC underestimates—over the 20 or so years that these assessments13 have been running, the underestimate ledger10 would be much larger than the overestimate11. Even with glitches—clearly erroneous editing or sloppy14 editing that led to these erroneous statements that got us in trouble recently.”
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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12 overestimates | |
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