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What hurts public trust in climate science is primarily a massive and well funded propaganda campaign that's been going on for 50 years.

Some scientists are going to sometimes be wrong about things. It is impossible for them to be scientists otherwise.

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Neither of us denied any of that.

OP just said that conservative predictions are better than aggressive ones, as they're more likely to come true and thus build trust.

Do you see any evidence that the consistent under-shooting of IPCC consensus predictions has built trust?

It is not possible to have an accurate mean prediction, and also to have no predictions above the mean.

I never said they did, or that they should focus on trustbuilding instead of aiming for accuracy.

I just pointed out that you were arguing with something other than what OP said.