Yes. They've gone out of their way to fend off accusations of "alarmism" by focusing on the low end predictions and avoiding anything with even a hint of worse

Yes. They've gone out of their way to fend off accusations of "alarmism" by focusing on the low end predictions and avoiding anything with even a hint of worse cases. At least some of those worse cases are becoming likely and even inevitable, while even worse case lurk largely unmentioned by scientists.