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From the IPCC press release: "In this IPCC assessment report, specific terms are used to indicate the assessed likelihood of an outcome or a result. For those t
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From the IPCC press release: "In this IPCC assessment report, specific terms are used to indicate the assessed likelihood of an outcome or a result. For those terms used above: virtually certain means 99–100% probability, extremely likely: 95–100%, very likely: 90–100%, likely: 66–100%." They have moved their assessment from "very likely" to "extremely likely". Note that the range still includes values up to 100%.
Scientists try to be very precise with their language. As a result of this precision, people that disbelieve in anthropogenic climate change can pick selective phrases, or statistics, that appear to support their own opinion, but in reality do not support their own opinion.