Peter Gleick

President Emeritus and Chief Scientist, Pacific Institute

Expertise: Water Resources, Drought

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ARTICLES REVIEWED

Analysis of “Hillary Clinton Boards The Climate Crisis Train To Nowhere”

in Forbes, by Roy Spencer

— 29 Oct 2016

"The article is inaccurate in several places and conveys that one must choose between solving immediate problems, such as poverty, and long-term risks such as climate change. We ca..

CLAIMS REVIEWED

Sea level rise is accelerating, and with it the risk associated with coastal storm surge, contrary to claim in Forbes

CLAIM
Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated.

SOURCE: Roy Spencer, Forbes

Published: 01 Nov 2016

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