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by defrost 697 days ago
The 2007 GeoJournal introduction you linked: An Inconvenient Truth and the scientists https://sci-hub.ru/10.1007/s10708-008-9127-y

does not answer the question asked: Which models told us we'd be underwater by now?

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The referenced article states the alarmist view presented in An Inconvenient Truth is scientifically valid.

The claim made by Al Gore, well over a decade ago, was that all arctic ice would be gone within five years. If you can't reason about how that much could claim to happen in five years and now fifteen's elapsed, I'm not sure what to say.

The question was Which models told us we'd be underwater by now?

You claimed knowledge and have yet to name a single one.

Al Gore is not a geophysical scientist and has published no peer reviewed papers in any GeoPhys | Climate journals so whatever a second rate US VP may have claimed in a film I certainly haven't watched is hardly relevant.

Can you back your claim or not?

Can you even name one climate model used in an IPCC report?

it's really great being a reality denier, you can just pick one unqualified person's worst mistake and use it to dismiss an entire field of thousands of people who've spent their entire adult life investigating and understanding something.

it's like quoting those scientists who believed that heavier than air flight was not possible and deciding that you don't need qualified engineers to build them - afterall somebody somewhere got something wrong, didn't they!

yeah it sounds like he pulled it out of his ass afterall.