These comments like this are so amusing, if it was not so dangerous to the future of our political future. In the academic world, I am what is called a geomorphologist. I study land forms and the forces that shaped them over the past one to two million years. Before climate change became the cash cow of the academic world, we would argue about details of the post latest glacial epoch and try to understand what was going on around the world. These days, the so called scientists are trying to morph the data into a political landscape in order to generate more grant dollars into their pockets. They are idiots, but the government idiots are encouraging and funding them because it sorts their political agenda.
This is a perfect example of lunacy in action. Many will embrace this position, but it is nonsense.
Sea levels have been rising since the retreat of the last glacial advance. When we enter into the new Ice Age, sea level will begin to drop. These cycles are beyond human life expectation, and are even beyond human recorded history. Deal with it.
Unfortunately, those political idiots (who use the "settled science" to support additional usurpations of power and rights) have helped make a mockery of real science.
It's embarrassing.
I remember when magazines like National Geographic and Scientific American were more respectable, but sadly, that has changed.
It will take a century to gouge out the last of this folly, and we haven't really started yet.
If these idiots keep screwing with energy producing industries, we will have a literal 'dark age' to go along with the cloud hanging over rational thought.
But it is the 'Information Age'. All we have to do is wait until people figure out that 'information' is not necessarily 'knowledge', and that neither alone equals 'wisdom'.