They also reviewed a variety of Op-Ed columns, blogs, newspaper articles and scientific reports, and requested that Mann produce all emails in his possession related to AR4.
Some reveal disturbing scientific improprieties connected with preparation of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change 2007: Fourth Assessment Report (commonly referred to as AR4).
Taken together with the ice melt estimate, the scientists say the overall, maximum impact on the seas by 2100 will be a rise of 69cm - just 10cm higher than the IPCC projection in 2007, termed AR4.