PBS News claims that “by 2100, scientists project sea levels around parts of Florida will rise between two and eight feet,” submerging large parts of the state.
IN FACT, climate alarmists have been making such predictions for more than 30 years, and they have turned out to be categorically false:
• In 1989, a senior U.N. official projected that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Since then, Earth’s land area grew by about 22,400 square miles.
• In 1989, another senior UN official wrote that “sea-level rise as a consequence of global warming would immediately threaten that large fraction of the globe living at sea level.” Since then, Earth’s coastal land area grew by about 5,200 square miles.
• In 1992, Al Gore claimed that “up to 60% of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated” “not long after” the “next few decades” “because of the rising sea level, due to global warming.” Since then, the coastal population of Florida grew by 61%.
The examples above are just a few among dozens of such failed predictions.
