Washington Post: A landmark report slated for release Friday is likely to announce the world`s leading climate scientists are 95 percent certain that recent global warming is largely due to human activities.
But what the report, from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will not say is that scientists are 95 percent certain about the severity of the consequences.
This is an important distinction, but one that frequently gets blurred.
For example, in an otherwise well-constructed piece...