text: Another grossly inaccurate claim which totally ignores our adaptive response involves sea level rise. Al Gore likes to show maps of what coastal areas look like presently, and what they would look like assuming a multi-meter sea level rise. A dramatic section of Gores An Inconvenient Truth showed some before and afters of coastal locations under Gores scenario of a 20 foot sea level rise that would happen f Greenland melted or broke up and slipped into the seaor half of Greenland and half of Antarctica melted or broke up and slipped into the sea. For a dose of reality, a recent paper published in Geophysical Research Letters pegged the current rate of sea level rise contributed by Antarctica and Greenland combined at 6 inches/century. How inconvenient.