In his 1992 book, "Earth in the Balance," U.S. Senator Al Gore (D-TN) claimed that "not long" after "the next few decades," "up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated" because "of the rising sea level, due to global warming." Since then, the COASTAL population of Florida has increased by about 61%. In the same book, Gore made a similar statement about Bangladesh's population that turned out to be the exact opposite of what he wrote. Likewise, the Associated Press reported in 1989, "A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000." Also, the New York Times reported in a 1995 article about global warming and rising sea levels, "At the most likely rate of rise, some experts say, most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years."