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by rsj_hn 1646 days ago
IPCC v5 is predicting .3 to 0.6 meters of sea level rise by 2100. That's about 1-2 feet over the next 80 years.

Maybe we can stop with the extremism, especially for something as well measured as sea-level.

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These studies from The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration go into new next IPCC assessments.

Massive localized events resulting from geographic features are not part of current IPCC models.

That's fine and I'm all for new theories and new models, but let's let them actually make it into the IPCC and see how they are peer reviewed, how the findings are reproduced and assessed by other scientists, etc, especially before multiplying current consensus estimates by a factor of 10. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and all that.