While Gore was creating alarm with his belief that a 20-foot-high wall of water would inundate low-lying cities, the IPCC showed us we should realistically prepare for a rise of one foot or so by the end of the century. Beyond the dramatic difference, it is also worth putting that one foot in perspective. Over the last 150 years, sea levels rose about one foot – yet, did we notice?
Bjorn Lomborg: Ignore Al Gore – but not his Nobel friends
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Published Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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