The article indicated that several scientists felt Gore over played the immediate and near term potential catastrophic events caused by global warming. I didn't read where any of them altered their sense that global warming was actually occurring or that humans were strongly participating in the event.
Scientific predictions of future events on a global scale are only as good as the models they create and the available data they have to feed those models. Absolutely predicting what the end result will be just isn't in the cards. Moderate predictions from the 1990's have already proven to be realistic. As one example, more violent hurricanes, though frequency of hurricanes remain relatively the same. US land fall of hurricanes still a flip of the coin - no more no less.
Moderate predictions on a global scale predict little near term changes in the lives of humans - the next 20-50 years. But as warming continues droughts ( as already seen world wide for periods of 5 years or less ) will become more frequent in the southern hemisphere, longer growing seasons in the US will push agriculture further north and winters in the US will become more wet and warm.
But these are long term events - and will little impact us in our lifetime. So, it is relatively easy to pass these on to our children and grandchildren to deal with.
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