Posted on 01/03/2022 10:47:34 AM PST by rktman
Some people love to be scared. Mary Shelley knew that when she wrote Frankenstein, and genres of fiction and film exist mining that desire for innocent fun and profit. But when politics enters the fray and fears are stoked to scare people into accepting costly and harmful policies, it is important to push back.
Two articles from last week illustrate the panic-mongering and the responsible citation of fact.
Breitbart highlights a prophet of doom from Rolling Stone magazine, home of the University of Virginia rape hoax story:
The massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica could "fall apart overnight" and raise sea levels by 10 feet, declares an article Thursday in Rolling Stone magazine.
The essay by Jeff Goodell, titled "'The Fuse Has Been Blown,' and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All," states that cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf suggest the Florida-sized ice mass "could fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years."
The West Antarctic ice sheet "is one of the most important tipping points in the Earth's climate system," Goodell asserts. "If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yeap, call me when those Florida beach front homes are being discounted.
even if this did happen, it STILL wouldn’t prove man made global warming, only that the earth is still warming from the end of the last ice age.
Could we guarantee LA, San Fran and NYC get wiped?
No, no, nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
“even if this did happen, it STILL wouldn’t prove man made global warming, only that the earth is still warming from the end of the last ice age.”
THIS. Exactly what I was thinking. The climate is always changing and we will have to adapt to it.
-PJ
Isn’t this the new South Pole that moved here from someplace else at the orders of Dr Fauci?
Mass Formation Psychosis is everywhere!
Yes because it was scared of getting covid where it was.
I think 10 feet would be great! That would just about take care about the ocean loving liberals, without harming too may others.
Unfortunately, they likely have insurances, so again, the middle class would have to pay for this.
Fill up a vessel with water and freeze it. Note when it freezes it expands. It displaces the air around it. When it refreezes it does not refill the vessel. Ice berg same principle on larger scale.
Awesome.
Ten Feet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome, I am going to buy myself a house 12’ above sea level over by the ocean. In a couple YEARS, I will own beach front property.
I hope someone films it.
Who needs “Rolling Stone” when this doomsday climate jockey scenario is covered in “Nature”?
PHOOEY to both of them!!!!
Sure it will.
agree...and there’s not a damn thing we can do that will change the climate. Mother nature rules!!
A tsunami?
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