Professor Curry said she believed there were inconsistencies in the draft report.
"If there are substantial changes in a conclusion in the AR5 (2013 report) relative to a confident conclusion in the AR4 (2007 report) then the confidence level should not increase and should probably drop, since the science clearly is not settled and is in a state of flux," Professor Curry said.
"An increase in confidence in the attribution statement, in view of the recent pause and the lower confidence level in some of the supporting findings, is incomprehensible to me.
"Further, the projections of 21st century changes remain overconfident."
Professor Curry said the draft report showed the IPCC process was having difficulty keeping up with the rapid pace of publication of scientific papers.
She recommended that the consensus-seeking IPCC process be abandoned in favour of a more traditional review. "I think that such a process would better support scientific progress and be more useful for policymakers."
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