Thursday, 5 September 2013

New paper in Nature Climate Change says IPCC uses statistical techniques 'out of date by well over a decade'

The Hockey Schtick
"A new paper published in Nature Climate Change finds, "Use of state-of-the-art statistical methods could substantially improve the quantification of uncertainty in [IPCC] assessments of climate change" and that "The forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and the US National Climate Assessment Report will not adequately address this issue. Worse still, prevailing techniques for quantifying the uncertainties that are inherent in observed climate trends and projections of climate change are out of date by well over a decade..."

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