Washington Post mentions Gill’s tweet to Green Party presidential candidate
A tweet composed by Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, was included in a Washington Post article about recent climate change comments made by Green Party presidential candidate and medical doctor Jill Stein. Stein, who has been criticized previously for statements on scientific topics such as vaccines and genetically modified organisms, is presenting climate science in an alarmist way, according to the article. Several climate scientists, including Gill, quickly faulted Stein’s tweet that claimed 12.3 million Americans could lose their homes due to a sea level rise of 9 feet by 2050. Gill’s reply tweet read, “Where did you get this number? I’m a climate scientist and this exceeds even extreme estimates.”