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Dev claim · claim-2250 · #60 of 154

“Some global warming 'skeptics' argue that the Earth's climate sensitivity is so low that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 will result in a surface temperature change on the order of 1°C or less, and that therefore global warming is nothing to worry about.”

Claim tags (sorted stems; highlighted when a passage shares them)

  • argu
  • atmospher
  • chang
  • climat
  • doubl
  • earth
  • global
  • global
  • less
  • low
  • noth
  • order
  • result
  • sensit
  • skeptic
  • surfac
  • temperatur
  • therefor
  • warm
  • warm
  • worri

Annotators’ label

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The model’s verdict

The Transformer retrained from the notebook (the 2024 weights were never saved), shown three ways. The first is how the notebook evaluated it.

Notebook protocol

Dev claims predicted in batches of 16, in file order, from the 2024 retrieved evidence, as the notebook does.

Supports✗ differs from the label
Supports
61.5%
Refutes
25.6%
Not enough info
2.6%
Disputed
10.3%

One claim at a time

The same model run on a single claim, which is how the Try-it page runs it.

Supports✗ differs from the label
Supports
54.2%
Refutes
27.5%
Not enough info
11.9%
Disputed
6.4%

With gold evidence

Fed the human-annotated evidence instead of retrieved passages. This is the 'val accuracy' the training loop reports.

Supports✗ differs from the label
Supports
56.1%
Refutes
18.6%
Not enough info
11.0%
Disputed
14.2%

Retrieved vs gold evidence

Gold passages were picked by the dataset’s annotators. Retrieved passages are what the TF-IDF rule returned from all 1.19M passages. Switch between the submitted 2024 output and the re-runs.

2024 submission

The passages the team actually retrieved and submitted in 2024 (their saved output file). The file records only passage ids, so scores are recomputed with the submission rule.

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  1. #1evidence-1092088

    Since the start of the 20th century, the global mean surface temperature of the Earth has increased by more than 0.7°C and the rate of warming has been largest in the last 30 years.

    • warm (shared with the claim)
    • largest
    • earth (shared with the claim)
    • rate
    • surfac (shared with the claim)
    • temperatur (shared with the claim)
    • global (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.567
    overlap
    0.714
    score
    1.281
    shared
    5

Gold evidence (2)

  1. evidence-692256

    In his first paper on the matter, he estimated that global temperature would rise by around 5 to 6 °C (9.0 to 10.8 °F) if the quantity of CO 2 was doubled.

    • quantiti
    • co
    • temperatur (shared with the claim)
    • rise
    • paper
    • global (shared with the claim)
    • matter
    • doubl (shared with the claim)
    • estim
  2. evidence-1049371

    The 1990 IPCC First Assessment Report estimated that equilibrium climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO 2 lay between 1.5 and 4.5 °C (2.7 and 8.1 °F), with a "best guess in the light of current knowledge" of 2.5 °C (4.5 °F).

    • assess
    • knowledg
    • equilibrium
    • lay
    • sensit (shared with the claim)
    • ipcc
    • doubl (shared with the claim)
    • estim