CNN’s Anderson Cooper suggested that scientists probably are not prescient enough to accurately forecast what the climate will do in the distant future during an interview with former Vice President Al Gore.
Cooper noted his skepticism during a town hall Monday night that focused on the “climate crisis.” He showed a map of the Florida coastline now and how it is projected to recede during the next decade if the planet warms by 2 degrees Celsius. The CNN host then asked Gore what made him think this forecast was accurate.
“One of the issues here, when people see maps like that, you know, weathermen can’t even tell what the weather is going to be later today,” Cooper said, referring to a common criticism leveled against climatologists who predict dire circumstances if climate change isn’t met head-on.
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“You trust your local weather — no offense to local weathermen, but oftentimes, you know, you’re told the weekend it’s going to be raining, and it’s a sunny weekend,” he added. “Why should people believe projections of what Florida is going to look like so far in the future?”
Weather forecasting on a day-by-day basis is not the same as forecasting large-scale climate science, Gore told Cooper in response.
Wallace pointed out that it’s been more than 10 years since Gore made the claim in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the ocean levels have yet to crest high enough to wipe out Florida, during his June interview with the Gore.
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