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An Inconvenient Truth exaggerated sea level rise
Roger Highfield
London
Telegraph
Friday, Sept 5, 2008
Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary exaggerated
the likely effects of global warming on sea levels, a new study
shows.
The film, An Inconvenient Truth, suggested that the sea would
rise up to 20ft "in the near future" as the ice in Greenland
or Western Antarctica melts.
Other documentaries have picture Britain deluged with water,
showing the House of Commons submerged.
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However, while some mainstream predictions project sea levels
2 to 4 meters higher by 2100, a new study published today in Science
concludes that a rise in sea level between 0.8 and 2 meters is
much more likely.
While scientists agree that sea levels rose by six inches over
the course of the 20th century, estimates of future rises remain
hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack
of data on what ice sheets did in the past to predict how they
will react to warming, insufficient long-term satellite data to
unpick the effects of natural climate change from that caused
by man and a spottiness in the degree to which places such as
Antarctica have warmed.
Prof Tad Pfeffer at University of Colorado in Boulder, Dr Joel
Harper at University of Montana and Dr Shad O'Neel at Scripps
Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, reached these conclusions
after studying the ice and water being discharged from Greenland
and Antarctic ice sheets.
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