[Robert A Cook PE]

Ackerman predicted a temperature increase of 10 degrees Fahrenheit, lower rainfall, more severe hurricanes and seas rising by as much as 45 inches because of climate change.

A New York-based environmental group, Environmental Defense, commissioned the Tufts study.

Of course, it is the enviros who CLAIM that it is the “oil companies” who have paid for scientists to create studies refuting AGW theories....

I note that he is predicting 10 deg F (5 C) by the end of the century, but nobody else (ANYWHERE) is predicting anything more than 1.5 to 2 degrees warmer. And even 5 deg C WILL NOT melt enough water anywhere to flood Florida.

So how can he claim Florida is going to go under (by some unspecified amount (Greater than 30+ feet apparently) ....

The UN itself (in all their exaggerations) is only expecting 10-28 INCHES of water rise inm two centuries - and that only IF temps go up to their maximum level.

[george76]

“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”

- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day 1970

[Steve_Seattle]

"So how can he claim Florida is going to go under (by some unspecified amount (Greater than 30+ feet apparently) ...."

Because nobody in the media will challenge this ridiculous study. As Sen Eugene McCarthy once said, "The press is like a flock of birds sitting on a wire. They sit and sit and sit, but suddenly one flies off in a certain direction, and all the others follow."

This GW thing has simply become a mania, an idee fixe, with the media.