Letters to the Editor
This letter is associated with the following article:
-
typical Lomborg
Just looking at the 20 feet sea level rise thing; Gore doesn't say in the movie the sea level will rise 20 feet, or will probably rise 20 feet, or anything like that. He says there's enough ice on Antarctica and Greenland that if both melted, the sea would rise 20 feet; he goes on to point out to the "fuzzy math" folks that if half the ice melted it would rise 10 feet, etc. (Nerd that I am, I actually looked up the volume of ice on both and checked these calculations and it's true, btw). Just an illustration that the problem is not dismissable or obviously too trivial to worry about. Lomborg's rebuttal that most scientists don't think the sea will rise 20 feet this century is a typical Lomborg straw man.