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Despite Climategate, IPPC Mostly Underestimates Climate Change
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 1 of Science, James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted 2 that the IPCC usually errs 3 on the conservative side. Steve Mirsky reports
Lost in the coverage 4 of the so-called climategate email controversy 5 is a key point about the IPCC’s track record of climate change estimates. James McCarthy is on the faculty 6 of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment. He spoke 7 February 21st at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego:
“If you were to go back and map the IPCC projection 8 for sea level rise and temperature in 1990, look at it in 1995, look at it in 2000. In retrospect 9 you would find that they were conservative. So we talk about errors. If you were to do two ledgers—here are IPCC overestimates 12, here are IPCC underestimates—over the 20 or so years that these assessments 13 have been running, the underestimate ledger 10 would be much larger than the overestimate 11. Even with glitches—clearly erroneous editing or sloppy 14 editing that led to these erroneous statements that got us in trouble recently.”
- His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
- The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- Man errs so long as he strives. 人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 来自每日一句
- He that talks much errs much. [谚]言多必有失。
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
- He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- Projection takes place with a minimum of awareness or conscious control.投射在最少的知觉或意识控制下发生。
- The projection of increases in number of house-holds is correct.对户数增加的推算是正确的。
- One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
- In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。
- The young man bowed his head and bent over his ledger again.那个年轻人点头应诺，然后又埋头写起分类帐。
- She is a real accountant who even keeps a detailed household ledger.她不愧是搞财务的，家庭分类账记得清楚详细。
- Don't overestimate seriousness of the problem.别把问题看重了。
- We overestimate our influence and our nuisance value.我们过高地估计了自己的影响力和破坏作用。
- These overestimates counterbalanced the uncertain risk of radiation releases after sealing. 这些过高估计抵消了在密封以后放射性物泄漏所产生的未知危害。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. 切勿低估一个过高估计他自己的人。
- He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明，约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评；而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句