Climate models err toward underestimating the pace of change

Evidence

Critics of global warming dismiss forecasting models as unreliable, but advances in technology have brought more accuracy to them. When existing models do err, it is usually on the conservative side. Summaries of findings typically state that things are getting worse much faster than expected. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2953

Categorization

• CANDY: Lightly useful dinner fact: even where climate models are wrong, they are biased toward underestimation — denialists invert this.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2953