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When I was in elementary school (early 90's) we were taught that half of New York would be underwater by 2020. Obviously didn't happen. Stop reading the news,

When I was in elementary school (early 90's) we were taught that half of New York would be underwater by 2020. Obviously didn't happen. Stop reading the news, they're fear-mongers and outlandish predictions have been happening for decades.

cryptoz 5y ago
More than 50 people just died from flooding of hurricane remnant in the Northeast just a few days ago. And Sandy really did put lower Manhattan under water causing huge damage. More of that is coming.
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  This is what I'm referring to: edit - a better link since someone didn't appreciate my google-fu: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-moving-targets-of-the-climate-change-movement https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo... Stop moving goalposts. The media has a problem with peddling misinformation and shitty climate predictions.
  - TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
    You're quoting a site that talks about "pole shifts and earth changes" and complaining about misinformation and shitty predictions?
    - 55555 5y ago
      Go watch An Inconvenient Truth again.
    - Mikeb85 5y ago
      Honestly I simply can`t be bothered to search for a source that was in a newspaper and on TV 30 years ago. These predictions have been happening for a long time, I lived through them. I`m not a climate change denier, but shitty predictions definitely hurt the cause of legitimate concern. Here's another quick Google search from a (more?) legit site: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-moving-targets-of-the-climate-change-movement https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo... Of course anyone in the Gen X/older millennial category should know what I'm talking about anyway (unless they slept through the first decade of their schooling).
      - eggsmediumrare 5y ago
        The predictions of a few individuals 30 years ago don't have nearly the same weight, at least to me, as the predictions of an international body of climate and earth science experts with 30 years of data and modelling experience behind them.
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jussij 5y ago
Just give it a decade or two and you won't need to be bother reading about it as you'll be living it.
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  I've heard about it for the last 30 years, glaciers that should be melted aren't, cities that should be underwater aren't, none of the alarming predictions have come true. In 30 years someone will be telling me just wait...
  - arcanon 5y ago
    We are not scared because of “the news” we are scared because of the graphs of temperature over time. Look at the plot. Find the +1.5C on the y axis. Now find where the plot crosses that on the x axis. We have like 15 years. Perhaps you dont think +1.5C does anything to farming? The sea levels rising is not the issue.
c0nducktr 5y ago
> > When I was in elementary school (also early 90's) we were taught that Do you think that your educators were climate scientists? Maybe you just had educators which misestimated the reports of actual scientists. Is a grade-school teacher supposed to understand climate forecasting? You're an adult. You should have realized by now that your grade school teachers didn't actually know everything about everything.

cryptoz 5y ago

More than 50 people just died from flooding of hurricane remnant in the Northeast just a few days ago. And Sandy really did put lower Manhattan under water causing huge damage. More of that is coming.

Mikeb85 5y ago
This is what I'm referring to: edit - a better link since someone didn't appreciate my google-fu: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-moving-targets-of-the-climate-change-movement https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo... Stop moving goalposts. The media has a problem with peddling misinformation and shitty climate predictions.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
  You're quoting a site that talks about "pole shifts and earth changes" and complaining about misinformation and shitty predictions?
  - 55555 5y ago
    Go watch An Inconvenient Truth again.
  - Mikeb85 5y ago
    Honestly I simply can`t be bothered to search for a source that was in a newspaper and on TV 30 years ago. These predictions have been happening for a long time, I lived through them. I`m not a climate change denier, but shitty predictions definitely hurt the cause of legitimate concern. Here's another quick Google search from a (more?) legit site: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-moving-targets-of-the-climate-change-movement https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/544472-the-mo... Of course anyone in the Gen X/older millennial category should know what I'm talking about anyway (unless they slept through the first decade of their schooling).
    - eggsmediumrare 5y ago
      The predictions of a few individuals 30 years ago don't have nearly the same weight, at least to me, as the predictions of an international body of climate and earth science experts with 30 years of data and modelling experience behind them.

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jussij 5y ago

Just give it a decade or two and you won't need to be bother reading about it as you'll be living it.

Mikeb85 5y ago
I've heard about it for the last 30 years, glaciers that should be melted aren't, cities that should be underwater aren't, none of the alarming predictions have come true. In 30 years someone will be telling me just wait...
- arcanon 5y ago
  We are not scared because of “the news” we are scared because of the graphs of temperature over time. Look at the plot. Find the +1.5C on the y axis. Now find where the plot crosses that on the x axis. We have like 15 years. Perhaps you dont think +1.5C does anything to farming? The sea levels rising is not the issue.

c0nducktr 5y ago

> > When I was in elementary school (also early 90's) we were taught that Do you think that your educators were climate scientists? Maybe you just had educators which misestimated the reports of actual scientists. Is a grade-school teacher supposed to understand climate forecasting? You're an adult. You should have realized by now that your grade school teachers didn't actually know everything about everything.