Climate report too rosy, warn experts

CLIMATE scientists will, this week, issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures. But that may be the sugarcoated version.

Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises than were projected in 2001 in the last report. Many top US scientists reject these rosier numbers.

Those calculations don’t include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations.