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> 1988: NASA said, A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover all Indian ocean nations in the next 30 years. The maldives will have
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
> 1988: NASA said, A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover all Indian ocean nations in the next 30 years. The maldives will have its drinking water supplies dry up by 1992.
When I search this I don't get a link to a prediction by NASA. Can you please cite your sources? And preferably their sources? I can see a possibility of cherry-picked quotes from the most pessimistic end of a range of scenarios and predictions. I can also see the possibility of someone maliciously attributing the prediction of another to NASA in order to smear NASA.
As an aside, I'll remind you that in the story the wolf ultimately did come, and the herd and boy were both lost.
- ulrashida 3y agoI agree, it feels like NASA has been thrown in to create a veneer of respectability for these conclusions. NASA does publish regular sea level assessments (https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/) so perhaps that's where this has come from. Nothing in their current reporting suggests that they would have jumped in the 90's from "sea levels are rising" to "countries are going to be wiped off the map tomorrow". It is still fair to say, however, that there are countries that are going to be significantly/existentially impact if the current trend of sea rise continues. Within any scientific discipline there is a broader consensus and there are more bold exceptional claims on both the high and low points. One could safely argue the consensus view on this topic has been moving too slowly.