Editorial | Validating the global countdown ‘climate time-bomb’ WashTimesOpEd
The work of the world body’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, its import was enunciated in grave tones by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: “The climate time bomb is ticking. But today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity.”
Climate warnings such as the U.N.’s are easier to launch into the public sphere than to land on target, though. Former Vice President Al Gore earned a reputation as a prophet of climate change on the merits of his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” Since then, though, he has been embarrassed by the emergence of inconvenient facts.
Mr. Gore, whose lucrative green projects have prospered on the urgency of his predictions, also claimed in 2006 that the melting ice would raise ocean levels as much as 20 feet “in the near future.” It has taken a century for seas to creep up 6 to 8 inches, according to NASA, which forecasts another 2 feet of water by 2100. At the current rate, though, the supposed “near future” problem that coastal cities must face won’t culminate until around the year 3000.
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