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Splum, UN reports are some of the most convoluted and mind numbingly misleading reports in the world. They are often written not to state fact, but rather to satisfy the member nations.
No scientist is in the position to clearly say what might happen. Gore may be using a very scary number to make a point, and the UN people may be using a very small number to protect massive greenhouse gas emitters like China and the US from having to clean up their shit.
Any scientist that predicts the future is in some way writing their own science fiction report, until such time that we get there and figure it out for real.
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