Sentences with phrase «model exaggerates the response»

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In project syndicate's article by Bjørn Lomborg we find: «For sea - level rise, the IPCC now includes modeling of glacier responses of 3 - 20 centimeters, leading to a higher total estimate of 40 - 62 cm by century's end — much lower than the exaggerated and scary figure of 1 - 2 meters of sea - level rise that many environmental activists, and even some media outlets, bandy about.»

The average of the two scaling factors implies that the CMIP5 models analysed on average exaggerate the response to aerosols, ozone and other non-greenhouse gas anthropogenic forcings by almost 70 %.

Ice sheet response time is poorly defined, but we show that the slow response and hysteresis in prevailing ice sheet models are exaggerated.