Sentences with phrase «climate change predictions underestimate»

A failure to appreciate the role clouds play in regulating the Earth's temperature means that a significant number of climate change predictions underestimate the likely extent of global warming over the coming years, scientists have claimed.

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For is it not true that the IPCC is comprised of a wide range of scientist and they all must agree on the content of their reports, that some of said scientists are either on the payroll of oil - dependent nations or are politically conservative, and that the IPCC predictions have consistently underestimated the effects of climate change in terms of temperature rise, sea level rise, ice cap diminution, etc..?

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But before the deniers crow that climatologists don't know what they're doing, note this well: The predictions made using these models almost always seem to underestimate the effects of climate change.

Kevin Hamilton, who co-authored the report, warns: «If our model results prove to be representative of the real global climate, then climate is actually more sensitive to perturbations by greenhouse gases than current global models predict, and even the highest warming predictions would underestimate the real change we could see.»

For close to 20 years, when I reacted to each new climate change prediction by saying it was a drastic underestimate, my sister would ask how I knew.

As someone who follows climate change news fairly closely, something that's been simultaneously frustrating and scary is how many people seem to believe that scientists are exaggerating the effects of climate change as a scare tactic, when in fact, if you compare their predictions with the actual observational evidence, scientists have overwhelmingly UNDERestimated the speed and violence of climate impacts.