Evidence Builds That Scientists Underplay Climate Impacts thinkprogress.org

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Evidence Builds That Scientists Underplay Climate Impacts

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Far from being “alarmist,” predictions from climate scientists in many cases are proving to be more conservative than observed climate-induced impacts. The observed rate of Arctic ice loss exceeds the projections of all IPCC climate models — by NSIDC scientist Julienne Stroeve updated through 2011 (...