My favorite was the prediction that cities in Florida would eventually be underwater due to man-made global warming melting the ice caps.
Many years later a hurricane barreled though Florida, and one city had a couple inches of flood water. That was apparently enough to satisfy the prediction and the doomers were all "See!?! See!!? We were right! The city was underwater!"
Of course the water receded soon after, but the doomers ignored that part.
That's because loosing Florida is a potential worst-case scenario after 250 years or so.
I think it would require, like a full 5-8 degrees of warming, and you'd be seeing major water level rises, even in underground water tables, and up rivers and waterways. Yeah, you'd lose Flordia... but you'd also lose most of the East Coast too. You'd probably displace well over 100 million Americans.
My favorite was the prediction that cities in Florida would eventually be underwater due to man-made global warming melting the ice caps.
Many years later a hurricane barreled though Florida, and one city had a couple inches of flood water. That was apparently enough to satisfy the prediction and the doomers were all "See!?! See!!? We were right! The city was underwater!"
Of course the water receded soon after, but the doomers ignored that part.
That's because loosing Florida is a potential worst-case scenario after 250 years or so.
I think it would require, like a full 5-8 degrees of warming, and you'd be seeing major water level rises, even in underground water tables, and up rivers and waterways. Yeah, you'd lose Flordia... but you'd also lose most of the East Coast too. You'd probably displace well over 100 million Americans.