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It won’t let me respond below. There was literally a sign out up at glacier national park, circa 2004ish, warning visitors that the glacier would be totally gone by 2020. In 2020, the glacier having not receded, the park decided to take the sign down when it became a meme.

Yes, we were told that models indicated some glaciers would totally disappear by, well, now. There has long been movement in glacier coverage, and as far as the ice caps go, arctic ice caps melting don’t really pose a threat to ocean levels. Antarctic ice caps do, but the promises of gloom from those has also been hyped.

The earth’s climate and surface is always changing. We think we can reconstruct the past to observe what has happened, but we have shown zero ability to really predict the future - even a couple years. The only models which have any usefulness tend to depend on solar cycles and orbit wobbles and nothing to do with humans. The saddest thing is all this faux climate alarm is serving to justify knowingly polluting the environment. Almost 25% of the Congo is contaminated with toxic waste. Destroying the rubber tree forests apparently wasn’t enough. Now wokies want to ensure it’s a toxic wasteland so they can feel good about their electric car. Sad.

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