I think that we can all agree that climate change affects volcanic activity. Just kidding.
But what’s scary about this article isn’t that the Atlantic Ocean might rise 6 inches over the next 50 years, but rather we have ZERO PREPARATIONS for an event like this again. No serious storage of food, no plans to quickly move agriculture to areas where food could still grow. Nothing. Just like for an EMP.
...and we’re the kooks. LOL.
Agreed
What's more scary is the ease of how many believe in the scientific value of that prediction.
From the models it comes from, the beat scientists on this admit that there is a 40%-70% uncertainty in the projections of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet behavior, and that's without attempting to factor any uncertainty about what nature is doing on its own that may affect climate, atmospheric and ocean temperatures and weather.
If their worst case scenario was likely, coastal areas would have looked much different than they did when the Norse sailed an ice free north Atlantic and settled what was suddenly "green" Greenland. London would have been under water - it wasn't.
The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.
Human's best survival tool has consistently been our ability to adapt and our ability to overcome.
In the 1950s people built home bomb shelters, because of things the popular media convinced them of. Today it's "climate change", or "an EMP attack".
Zero Preparations is a serious issue. Saying have 3 or even 5 days easy to use food and water is just so inadequate. Why we had some people with no electricity for 6 to 8 days after that big Derecho storm in the mid-Atlantic. The Mormons require their followers to have a one year supply of food. Seven years ago when I was caring for my husband who was dying at home with Alzheimer’s I built up a 3 month supply of food as I anticipated a period when it might be very hard to go out to food shop. I still maintain that supply.
Now we have this super heat and over half the country with serious drought problems. If we had even a much smaller volcano event like Tambora (the year with no summer, 1816 fame), our food prices would soar through the roof. There would be a lot of starvation in the rest of the world. We really need to give thought to supporting population limits throughout the world. And no, I don’t mean abortions, I mean supporting pregnancy prevention help.