Group: talk.environment
From: Patrick
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:21 PM
Subject: Bjorn Lomborg botched sea level rise

Bjorn Lomborg on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) this morning.

WPR archives: ...

"Joy Cardin's guest says though global warming is a very real concern,
the consequences are highly exaggerated, and scientific data is often
misrepresented. He calls for a rational discussion with realistic
solutions.Guest: Bjorn Lomborg (Biorn LOM-borg), author, "Cool It: The
Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming".

http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=jca

Lomborg said IPCC projections called for less than a 2 ft rise in sea
level and he said nothing about ice dynamics and what's been taking
place recently on Greenland.

However:

Greenland ice melt shocks scientists

Rising sea level - Climate models failed to foresee the
acceleration, ...

The vast ice sheet that coats Greenland up to 2 miles thick is
reacting to global warming far faster than scientists thought it
would.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1189232816204570.xml&coll=7

http://npat.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/11/955280-global-warming-like-bird-flu-scare-says-bjorn-lomborg

Temperature plots for many U.S. climate stations at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/npatnew