The IPCC used this and other data gathered from fossil records, ice core drillings, tree ring analyses, marine sediment cores and the like to develop global weather models designed to account for past global temperature changes and predict future temperature scenarios. ... The ICPP's climate models failed to accurately plot these temperature patterns, raising obvious concerns about the model's utility. ... The IPCC models assume that the ambient air temperature over the ocean is the same as the surface sea water temperature. ... In any event, the models failed to accurately predi...

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