Obama was right when he promised that his election would be the historical marker indicating when the global sea levels would stop rising. What he didn't realize is that the claim was an error and it was only during his first term as POTUS that scientists would retract the claim! This goes back to that whole bone of contention that I have with much of Global Warming Alarmism - models.
Run the models - I have no objection to that. But don't declare the findings as science until you can see reality verify the model is accurate. And as a result:
"Unfortunately, we have since found that our projections were affected by two oversights in our model approach. "This is the point with models and "science". The two are not the same. A model is the hypothesis, but scientific discovery/conclusions must come as a result of testing the model/hypothesis - not just declaring we have a model that extrapolates all the data we included. The reason this is not credible is because our ecosystem is so big and complex, for the most part, that we don't know all the factors that influence and effect climate change. Additionally, the Alarmist camp seems so dedicated to an ideological conclusion that they ignore other factors (i.e. the sun, regular climate cycles, etc.).
Run the models - I have no objection to that. But don't declare the findings as science until you can see reality verify the model is accurate. And as a result:
"Thus we no longer have confidence in our projections for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and for this reason the authors retract the results pertaining to sea-level rise after 1900."