Top Scientists Deliberately Misrepresented Sea Level Rise for Years
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Shellenberger is a grifter. You can just read the paper https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2022.2...
Shellenberger is more of a PR/grifter person than a scientist. Presumably if he was a scientist he’d have read this and other papers that somewhat convincingly indicate that, well, he’s spewing nonsense.