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Quantifying climate change — too rosy a picture?

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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assesses the skill of climate models by their ability to reproduce warming over the twentieth century, but in doing so may give a false sense of their predictive capability.

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    The numbers on the left axis scale on figure 2 incorrectly read 0, 1.0, 1.0, rather than 0, 0.5, 1.0.

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  1. Stephen E. Schwartz is in the Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.,

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  2. Robert J. Charlson is in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.,

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  3. Henning Rodhe is in the Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.,

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