The EU might also declare that lithium is a hazardous material. This will likely cause a German lithium mine to close. The result will mean even more dependence on China.
😵Self destructive self-righteousness. I've stopped asking, "How is it possible for people to be this stupid?" They just are. The blind leading the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch.
Yes, land sublimation is a real thing and a serious problem in the Mississippi River flood plain below Baton Rouge. It is causes primarily by the levies on the west bank of the river that are intended to prevent the flooding of homes and businesses. For the most part, those levies did their job. However, those floods deposited new silt that compensated for the compaction of the existing soil. That is no longer being done except when the levies overtop.
As strange as it may seem, more than one thing can be true at the same time. The flooding of the Mississippi River coastsl delta is a tragedy for those who lived there, but it is a relatively minor tragedy in the grander scheme of things. After the levies in New Orleans breached following Hurricane Katrina, the East Bank of the Mississippi River flooded, most notably the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward is below sea level. Along much of the Mississippi's length, however, the elevation of the East Bank is higher than the elevation of the West Bank. However, we have recently seen massive floods on the East Bank north of New Orleans. Baton Rouge has been flooded. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to flew across the State of Mississippi beginning on the East Bank just north of Vicksburg. The Mississippi River had overflowed. For miles and miles, I saw no dry land. All land was covered in flood waters. Many homes were inundated in water up to their rafters.
It is going to get worse. Current predictions are that virtually all of our current coastal lands will be underwater by 2050. Because most of our major cities are either on the Coast or a coastal plain, this means that 10 millions of American residents will be forced to move on to new homes that are currently inland. If this happens, then the Mississippi River will become an inland sea that separates the US East from West. The fishermen displaced from their homes in the Mississippi River Delta will have a lot of company. The entire state will be under water--save one parish (county).
Disaster sells books, it sells papers. Algore went from one million net worth when he left office in 2001 to $300 million today. Wonder how that happened to a poor simple farm kid who was plowing the hillsides behind a mule when he was a young Jethro Bodine hick.
This week Myron Ebell (director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) and Steven J. Milloy published a post on the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog titled “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions:” Modern doomsayers have...
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Here's a sample:
21.
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22.
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23.
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24.
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25.
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26.
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (
additional link)
27.
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
28.
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29.
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
36.
2006: Super Hurricanes!
37.
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38.
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39.
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40.
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41.
1970s: Killer Bees!
Update: I’ve added 9 additional failed predictions (via
Real Climate Science) below to make it an even 50 for the number of failed eco-pocalyptic doomsday predictions over the last 50 years.
42.
1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43.
1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44.
1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45.
1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
46.
1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
They and India and the Rooskies and all the world's Bad Guys don't give a tinker's damn about CO2. But they're happy to watch Western Civilization destroy itself. 
