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My favorite example is this: "National Park Quietly Removed Warning That Glaciers ‘Will All Be Gone’ by 2020 After Years of Heavy Snowfall" https://www.western
by sparrish 5y ago
My favorite example is this: "National Park Quietly Removed Warning That Glaciers ‘Will All Be Gone’ by 2020 After Years of Heavy Snowfall"
https://www.westernjournal.com/national-park-quietly-removed-warning-glaciers-will-gone-2020-years-heavy-snowfall/ https://www.westernjournal.com/national-park-quietly-removed...
- dane-pgp 5y agoI see they've updated their estimate to the more cautious (and less precise) figure of "sometime between 2030 and 2080". A more readily falsifiable prediction, therefore, is Harvard University professor James Anderson's 2018 claim that: "The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-pollution-has-shoved-the-climate-backward-at-least-12-million-years-harvard-scientist-says/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-p...
- sparrish 5y agoThat's a great example but there's something about looking at a glacier, right in front of you, and having a placard that says it will be gone in one year that really rings the cognitive dissonance of the inaccuracy of 'the science'.