Weatherman2020
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- Mar 3, 2013
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If there’s anything predictable in life, it’s death and environmental ‘experts’ always being wrong.
The government is corrupt, racist, and incompetent, but if we give them more of our money they’ll change the weather!
0-168 in environmental doomsday predictions now.
Then, not very long ago, researchers began sifting through aerial images and found something startling. They looked at a couple dozen islands first, then several hundred, and by now close to 1,000. They found that over the past few decades, the islands’ edges had wobbled this way and that, eroding here, building there. By and large, though, their area hadn’t shrunk. In some cases, it was the opposite: They grew. The seas rose, and the islands expanded with them.
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The government is corrupt, racist, and incompetent, but if we give them more of our money they’ll change the weather!
0-168 in environmental doomsday predictions now.
Then, not very long ago, researchers began sifting through aerial images and found something startling. They looked at a couple dozen islands first, then several hundred, and by now close to 1,000. They found that over the past few decades, the islands’ edges had wobbled this way and that, eroding here, building there. By and large, though, their area hadn’t shrunk. In some cases, it was the opposite: They grew. The seas rose, and the islands expanded with them.
The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish
Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. But research tells a surprising story: Many islands are stable. Some have even grown.
