Over the top understatement

posted by Neil Wagner on Friday, October 30. 2009

When yesterday's gross exaggeration becomes today's underestimation.

Those who are skeptical about the existence of anthropogenic climate change often think of scientists' predictions as far-fetched and dramatic; that they just like to make things sound much more horrific than they will actually be. There is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Not only do results come in worse than predicted, scientists sometimes learn the unhappy news decades before the time span of their climate models is nearing its end.

Here are a few examples...

"Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate far quicker than predicted by climate change computer models"

"The scientific consensus is that we are headed into big trouble," he said. He said a fast thaw of Arctic sea ice in summer indicated that the impacts of climate change were worse than predicted by a U.N. panel of scientists just two years ago."

"We now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected..."

"Global level of greenhouse gases is now far worse than predicted..."

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