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Ipcc report

The IPCC report is actually biased--it's too conservative. It doesn't consider positive feedback loops that cause "runaway" change:

> By largely ignoring such feedbacks, the IPCC report fails to adequately warn leaders about the cluster of six similar climate tipping points that could be crossed between today’s temperature and an increase to 1.5 degrees—let alone nearly another dozen tipping points between 1.5 and 2 degrees. These wildcards could very likely push the climate system beyond human ability to control.

[0]: https://thebulletin.org/2018/10/climate-report-understates-t... (by Nobel prize winner Mario Molina)

Every statement in the IPCC report must be approved unanimously by a panel of authors from various countries. The theories that are not reaching consensus yet cannot be part of it.

That's what gives the reports so much weight. Literally everyone should agree with it.

Of course "weight" does not mean the same as "accuracy".

It depends on your way of selecting the panel of authors, though. eg. if you only pick people who agree with you, it's not a scientific consensus, but an echo chamber.

There are delegates from more than 120 governments that have to approve every line from every report. Government-appointed delegates from Saudi Arabia have the same weight as from France, UK, the US. The whole thing is mandated and sponsored by the UN and every government can participate. It's not an echo chamber.

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