Sean Casten said "My longtime friend Mike McCracken, who is one of the co-authors of the IPCC report that shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, has been pointing out for some time in ways that are very troubling that the historic challenge with our climate forecasts is that they are prone to underpredict the severity of what happens because what we fail to always appreciate is all the complexity of the feedback loops, and almost all the feedback loops are positive." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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My longtime friend Mike McCracken, who is one of the co-authors of the IPCC report that shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, has been pointing out for some time in ways that are very troubling that the historic challenge with our climate forecasts is that they are prone to underpredict the severity of what happens because what we fail to always appreciate is all the complexity of the feedback loops, and almost all the feedback loops are positive.

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Sean Casten

Democratic · Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Casten discusses challenges in climate forecasting and the complexities of feedback loops.

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