Canada Concurs

In case you are wondering about Canada's contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s recently released working group report, here it is:


On the proposed two-dimensional approach to uncertainty, which has “agreement” on the vertical axis and “evidence” on the horizontal axis, he said “agreement” meant the degree of convergence in the literature, and “evidence” the number of independent studies, quality of the studies, data points, model runs, etc.
On text defining “agreement,” Australia proposed “convergence in the literature,” and Canada proposed “concurrence.” While participants granted that “convergence” was preferable to “concurrence,” they agreed to “concurrence in the literature” because the word “convergence” in climate change is often associated with a mitigation strategy known as “convergence and contraction.”


Whoo whoo!

Source: Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Monday May 7, 2007