Posted by Tina
* The world’s foremost expert on sea level is Professor Niklas Moerner, who has been studying nothing but sea level throughout his 30-year career. In a recent paper (Moerner, 2004), he condemns the IPCC for its baseless exaggeration of future sea-level rise, and says there is no reason to suppose that sea level will rise any faster in the 21st century than it did in the 20th – i.e., by about 8 inches. *** There is not and has never been any scientific basis for the exaggerated projections by a certain politician that sea level might imminently rise by as much as 20 feet. That politician, in the year in which he circulated a movie containing that projection, bought a $4 million condominium just feet from the ocean at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco. *** You may well ask whether he actually believed his own prediction and, if so, why he spent so much buying a condominium that – if his prediction were right – would very soon be worthless. *
If you enjoy the Climate Change debate you will find this series of letters (see links at end of letter) from the Viscount to John McCain filled with interesting information…and pleas for sanity. I only Hope McCain has read it.