longweekend58 wrote on Sep 28
th, 2013 at 4:37pm:
muso wrote on Sep 28
th, 2013 at 10:38am:
The IPCC Report is extremely conservative. It understates the risk. Virtually any climatologist will echo that sentiment.
so the real figure is actual 145% certain? and the 2degree figure is actually 7 degrees?
cmon muso. you can do better than that. the IPCC isn't conservative at all. it is merely INCOMPETENT. or how do you account for them being wrong 100% of the time?
The IPCC has erred on the conservative side. A great many papers that predicted a higher temperature increase were not included. Many that predicted lower increases were included, including some that are generally regarded as having little credibility. There is political pressure by countries such as China to understate the findings.
Some climate scientists suggest that the IPCC has outlived its
usefulness.
That said, the confidence that if you drop a stone it will hit the ground is pretty close to 95%. Usually we talk about a 95% confidence interval. It's a kind of "gold standard".
How many samples would be expected to fall outside predicted ranges for a 95% confidence limit? Give me an answer in percent.
Now please back up that assertion that the IPCC have been wrong 100% of the time.
Doesn't that show that the figure of 100% at least, is incorrect?