The report's catastrophic forecasts have been difficult to independently verify.Curtin University climate scientist and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributor, Peter Newman, said this was particularly clear at the more extreme end.
"I don't know they could claim there is a real basis for what they're saying," Professor Newman said."Other than that it is getting hotter; but that much hotter? I'm not so sure.
"Professor Newman said the dire forecasts ran the risk of emboldening opponents of climate action if they were not eventually met.
"If you overstate and you're crying wolf all the time, people stop listening to you."
