Chris Williamson
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Podcast Appearances
Predictions that were incorrect.
Rapid sea level rise, 20 feet.
The film depicted a potential sea level rise of up to 20 feet, 6 meters, in the near future from the collapse of Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets.
While this extreme scenario is considered possible over centuries or millennia, scientific consensus does not support this happening.
Eminently, current rates are much slower, even with acceleration.
Reaching 20 feet would take many centuries.
Another one, Mount Kilimanjaro glacier melt caused by global warming.
Goal attributed the shrinking of Kilimanjaro's glaciers mainly to global warming, but later research points to other major causes like sublimation and reduced snowfall unrelated primarily to temperature.
impression of imminent chaos.
The film often implies that catastrophic outcomes like rapid ice sheep collapse and dramatic sea level rise might occur within decades when in reality such processes are expected to take much longer, often centuries or more.
And then legal findings.
A UK court found nine errors of exaggerations in the film, mostly involving a lack of clarity on time scales or oversimplified attributions like Kilimanjaro.
Overall, climate scientists judged an inconvenient truth as mostly accurate with its projections, particularly in broad trends, but criticized its presentation for occasionally exaggerating the speed and certainty of some changes.
Well, I think this is...
I'd like to keep this climate hustle going on.
Well, they were mostly accurate.
We do have a sincere problem.
Stop putting a British accent on when you do that.
That's not even British.
That's like a fake British guy.