Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years

americanthinker.com ^ | Oct. 30, 2009 | Marc Sheppard

[Free ThinkerNY]

The scariest story told this Halloween week had nothing to do with ghosts, goblins, or zombies, though it was certainly dripping with huge gobs of Gore. In fact -- the most terrifying words screeched in the past seven days came from the master of environmental horror himself.

According to Arab Internet services company Maktoob.com, our favorite greenhouse gasbag spent Tuesday afternoon outlining the reasons why attendees of the Leaders in Dubai Business Forum must change their wicked gas-guzzling ways:

“The North Pole ice cap is 40 percent gone already and could be completely and totally gone in the winter months in the next 5 to 10 years.”

Such thaw, cautioned Gore, “could increase sea levels by 67 metres” and that “each one metre of sea level rise (SLR) is associated with 100 million climate refugees in the world.” That’s up a full 47 meters from the already horrifying predictions he’s made previously.

Incidentally, a climate refugee (or “environmentally induced migrant” as the UN would prefer we refer to them) is a person forced to move to a new country by global warming related environmental disasters. Where the whacky climate refugees per meter SLR figure came from is anybody’s guess.

Anyway, if my math is correct, the 2007 Nobel laureate effectively predicted that by 2020, the oceans could rise 220 feet and 6,700,000,000 people will be forced to wander the planet in search of a less soggy domicile.

And the journey won’t be easy, what with much of the planet underwater and its entire population -- which Gore’s 6.7 billion amounts to -- vying for whatever dry land remains available.

But before we pack our tents, inflatable rafts, and foreign-language dictionaries, let’s take a closer look at the green Stephen King’s figures.

[blackbart.223]

"How does the thawing of ice that floats on water affect sea levels in any way?"

It doesn't. Did you ever sit on the deck with a glass of ice water? As the ice melts the level of the water does not change. To call Al Gore an idiot is doing him a kindness.

[plain talk]

Incorrect.

http://www.physorg.com/news5619.html

[sand lake bar]

Manbearpig

[BallyBill]

See, that is the beauty of this. We will all be dead in 6 years from Global Warming, so we will never know if he was right.

[Huskrrrr]

The story of a has-been, similar to Spinal Tap.

“THIS IS ALL GORE.”

[Kozak]

Thats true for sea ice. Not so for the Greenland or Antarctic ice caps. That ice is not floating on water, therefore if it melts ( a gigantic if) then sea levels would indeed rise.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

220 feet...what...is Al going in the water?

[LukeL]

But Gore is talking about the north ice cap which would do nothing to sea level. Also it would take a lot of energy to melt all the ice in Greenland.

[Snickering Hound]

[Cicero]

Archimedes proved that an object displaces its mass in water if it is less dense that water and its volume if it is more dense. As ice is less dense it will displace its mass which being water will not cause a change in sea level if it melts. This is something learned in Physics 101

Stop thinking. AlGore has proven that people who think breath out more CO2 than those who don't, and thus the ice caps will melt even faster! Just send Al your donation and shut up!

[o-n-money]

If they catch Manbearpig everything will reverse. I’m serial.

[blackbart.223]

"Gore finally got around to seeing Waterworld."

I think he saw the first release and bases his conclusions on it. All joking aside Al has tons of cash in the cap and trade business. If we don't buy his BS he may have to downscale his house. I hope the turd goes broke.

[milwguy]

Is Kevin Costner and Waterworld at the Blockbuster Video? I need to start studying how to survive in a wrold covered with water. I thought the Arctic sea ice was just that SEA ICE. It floats on top of the sea and when it melts, it does not raise the level a bit. Of course Al Gore never lets ‘inconvenient’ facts gets in the way of a good story.

[LukeL]

But that salt still has to be somewhere. If not actually in the snow and ice itself it will be in the ocean. Thus the overall mass and volume of the ocean water should not change.

[potlatch]

[ThomasThomas]

It must a meter foot thing.

[Pylon]

And my house is 222 feet above sea level. Hello beachfront property!!!

[This_far]

he’s moving the goal post. I thought we have til 2012

Can we start taking body parts for each year that he's off by?

[blackbart.223]

I can’t stop laughing at that one.

[married21]

As Gore has revised his climatic numbers over time, he has also expanded his own measurements, which can tend to heat a body up. Maybe this is Gore’s version of “is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?”