On May 4, 1989, Ehrlich warned of "rapid" climate change, that "we could expect to lose all of Florida, Washington D.C., and much of the Los Angeles Basin....We'll be in rising waters with no ark in sight." They repeated this disaster-movie routine on Jan. 11, 1990. Ehrlich claimed that when the ice sheet melts in Antarctica, the sea level would rise "not...1 to 3 feet in a century but...10 or 20 feet in a much shorter time." He added: "The Supreme Court would be flooded. You could tie your boat to the Washington Monument. And storm surges would make the...