Inconsistent views

Marc Morano, a climate skeptic from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee minority staff, says to OneNewsNow that the IPCC is scaling back on its previous dire predictions of catastrophic climate change. With each successive report, there is less cause for alarm than previously thought. Morano points out that in the recent 2007 report, man’s alleged impact on “global warming” was scaled back by 25 percent while ocean-level rise was also reduced.

At the same time on the other side of the Atlantic, Lord Nicholas Stern concludes that the situation is far worse than the assumptions that formed the basis of his Review on the Economics of Climate Change released in October 2006.

We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change. All of the links in the chain are on average worse than we thought a couple of years ago.

Now how’s that compatible? Don’t the AGW people talk to each other anymore? I though the IPCC and Stern were in consensus?