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IPCC vs reality: who got it right?

Amy Huva
Posted: Dec 7th, 2012
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Brisbane floods 2011 (photo: Eric Veland, flickr)

The IPCC. It is the favourite punching bag of climate deniers and conspiracy theorists alike, who all like to claim that the reports are faulty or flawed or incorrect. So these researchers decided with the 5th Assessment Report due soon to go back to the 3rd and 4th reports, check what was in the projections and see how accurate they were on temperature rise and sea level rise. Kind of like a mid-term report card!

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