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		tdubhro1 on Dec 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Good News You May Have Missed in 2014 > ""almost certainly an underestimate", because a number of climate-health relationships are not measurable due to lack of adequate data". How can the very lack of evidence and data logically support a claim that any estimate is either too low or too high with any "certainty"?

lincolnq on Dec 16, 2014 [–]

I suspect they did a "conservative estimate" that pops out "almost certainly at least this many people will die due to effects we understand pretty well. Other, largely independent effects could be lurking that we don't understand."

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