Some may consider «denial» some sort of insult, but as long as the case being put is that the only
possible flaw in the modeling is that it's pessimistic, I can't think of a better term.
C / decade and the simulated ensemble mean over the
models, calculated from the grid boxes of the
models where observations exist (which is
flawed in my opinion, since excluding of mostly the high latitudes from the
model data may emphasize a warm bias
in lower latitudes
in the
models making them appear warmer than they are, but a
possible cold bias of the global observations data set is not excluded
in this way) had a trend of 0.3 deg.