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in 1980 climate studies had shown that if we don't do anything (and we didn't) by 2000 quite a few coastal cities will be underwater Cite?

• beagle3 13y ago
  Well, last time I looked for it, I couldn't find any older studies on the IPCC website that have been shown to be wrong. However, having lived and read newspapers at the time, I remember the scare mongering, and specifically the mention of the "Marker Tree" in the Maldives, which were projected to to have significant areas under water by 2010, then 2020, now 2100 (spolier: it didn't happen https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110718090253AAlHC37 https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201107180902...) A quick googling cannot find the original predictions (days before the web ... go figure), but this interesting discussion http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-1990-ipcc-climate-projections/ http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-1990-ipcc... will give you an idea about the difference between 25 year old predictions and what actually happened. The guy who runs this blog is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez Other readings: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/28/un-climate-report-models-overestimated-global-warming/ http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/28/un-climate-report-... (yes, it is fox news - so use your debiaser, but do look at the content). Also the responses and links over at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-assessments-25-years-of-the-ipcc/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-assessment...