Reply #12: The next IPCC report should be interesting

[Nederland]

I've seen a great number of fairly pessimistic estimates on temperature rise and sea level rise being posted on this forum. Given that every IPCC report is supposed to represent the consensus science on the issue when it is issued, it will be interesting to see if the IPCC choses to incorporate these higher estimates. That would be a break with the past, given that up until this point the IPCC has lowered estimates on both predicted temperature rise and predicted sea level rise. The report lowered temperature predictions from 2.5 degree per century to 2.0 degrees per century and cut its sea level rise predictions by almost half.

Time will tell.