Nexus 6 writes about critics of the IPCC
There has been a concerted attempt by a number of contrarians with media access to use the findings of the summary to discredit claims about the degree of climate change and its impacts.
A lot of these claims seem to revolve around the myth that the IPCC summary states that sea-levels will raise by a maximum of 59cm by 2099.
Nexus 6 gives us Jennifer Marohasy, who has an article in Courier Mail:
.....the IPCC summary indicates that sea levels have risen by just 17cm and may rise by no more than another 18cm, certainly no more than 59cm by 2099.
Nexus 6:
There are a number of scenarios given and the sea-level response for each. The most pessimistic scenario gives a sea-level rise of 59cm, with the explicit caveat that this figure does not include future rapid dynamical changes in ice flow. ... As is evident if you bother to read this note, 59cm plus 20cm (79 cm in total) is the likely upper limit to sea-level rise by 2100 though, due to a lack of understanding of likely ice flow rates, an even greater rise cannot be ruled out.
Of course, that wasn't the only thing Marohasy got wrong.
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