Even more telling is a more recent study's conclusion that the IPCC's findings have shown to be rather conservative.
Excerpt:
"Writing in the journal Science, an international group of scientists concluded that temperatures and sea levels had been rising at or above the maximum rates proposed in the last report, which was published in 2001.
...
The [IPCC's] models had forecasted a temperature rise between about 0.15C-0.35C (0.27-0.63F) over this period. The actual rise of 0.33C (0.59F) was very close to the top of the IPCC's range.
A more dramatic picture emerged from the sea level comparison. The actual average level, measured by tide gauges and satellites, had risen faster than the intergovernmental panel of scientists predicted it would..."
Now that is certainly what I feared most, a rate of temperature rise and of escalating sea levels that is far more aggressive and severe than suggested by the IPCC group either in the previous 2001 or in the current report.
Link to news report relating to the more recent study, refer to section "At Variance" on the bottom 1/4 of the article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6321351.stm
Link to the full report of the IPCC alluded to by Ryberg.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/h...matereport.pdf