Zeke Hausfather wrote:
> I recently stumbled upon an ABC 20/20 segment titled "Last Days on
> Earth" including interviews with Hansen, Oppenheimer, and others and
> warning of "billions of casualties" and implying the possibility of 40
> feet of sea level rise within a century.
>
> You can find it here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Zk4-JPCdg
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XClNHfmFDog
>
> They include a segment with Hansen where, the way the quote is cut, he
> seems to be implying that a complete melting of the Greenland ice
> sheet prior to 2050 is possible.
>
> Now, the question is, how is something like this any better than TGGWS
> or its brethren, and should the scientists interviewed in this film
> have objected when their words were used out of context or to imply
> impacts more severe than those supported by the science?
...tumbleweed...
it's even better than you said, because the graphics right at the end of
the first section show large parts of most land masses being submerged
(and by large part, I don't mean a significant coastal strip, but eg the
whole SE of the UK).
...tumbleweed...
James
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