 Legates viewpoint, as stated in a 2015 study that he co-authored, is that the Earth will experience about 1.0 °C warming over the 2000 to 2100 period.Legates started his career working on precipitation probability modeling.He extended his research to the study of global precipitation and temperature measurement correlation and performed critical analyses of the quality of traditional water budgeting methods applied to recent,[source required] better quality measurement data.