(Posted by John.)
...just kidding, of course. Joseph Romm -- Clinton-era energy booster -- has highlighted a pair of articles about the way the media has misreported probably one of the most basic elements of global warming: rising sea levels. Essentially, the media took the IPCC's low-ball estimates and made them the only acceptable predictions. Both papers take issue with that. One takes a linear approach and says that if the world's seas rise at the rate they did in the 20th century, we could be in for a one-meter rise by 2100. James Hansen, in the other paper, says that if the rate of sea level rise accelerates like it has since 1950, we could be in for a five meter rise in sea levels. Both predictions are outside the range used by the IPCC, because the IPCC was only allowed to consider very limited models in its predictions -- and those prediction were bad enough.
Hansen's paper is here, Stefan Rahmstorf's is here. (Both links PDF.)
