I think you&#x27;re mixing up the science itself and the reporting on it.  If a paper was published saying that sea level rises were going to be 20% lower than expected I wouldn&#x27;t expect most people would ever hear about it.  Or if they did it would be reported as showing that sea level rise was even more of a threat than we had believed.<p>If you want the truth the IPCC reports area great for providing the scientific consensus along with the (large) uncertainty we have about exactly what climate change will look like.