Luckily the Swiss army had evacuated the entire village earlier this month, save one 64 year old man who refused to leave. That man is still missing and presumed dead. Birch Glacier had been melting and shifting for years and in recent months the slow creep of melting ice and mud had accelerated. The glacier had been stable for hundreds of years until the last 10. Good thing climate change is a hoax, because otherwise those 300 people would not have just lost everything that they owned. https://www.reuters.com/sustainabil...of millions of,Birch Glacier began to crumble.
Crazy. Reminds of Chimney Rock, NC. The forces in slides/mountain floods are way scarier than even hurricane storm surge. Totally unsurvivable. At least in this one they weren’t totally off guard and got everyone out in advance (except 1 stubborn old fool, apparantly).
"Two boats and a helicopter" -- Switzerland is one of the least affected European country in most climate models I've seen. Least, not "not at all". Models of Europe vary widely, because it's both average temperature change + Gulf Stream affect. (Porto, after all, is less than 1 degree South of Chicago.)
Quit putting context in this story. The sad thing about this landslide is one old man refused to leave, and he is now missing.
Climate change isn’t a hoax as it’s been going on for thousands of years. And will continue to change.
No one really thinks climate change is a hoax. But we can doubt how much humans are really contributing.* Regardless. This is sad for those folks no doubt. *Edit...please skip the next post in this thread
There isn’t even doubt humans are contributing. The numbers you have to go back to at this point are millions of years ago - periods of high volcanic activity. We are higher than ANY point in human history - so even large volcanic eruptions that happened in the timeline of man’s early existence didn’t bring us these peaks. The Industrial Revolution didn’t bring these peaks. So if you think there’s debate, the obvious question would be what is doing it if not modern human pollution? The only real argument is “if a supervolcano erupts, we are screwed anyway, so why bother”. YOLO baby.
Um.....you might want to come back and read the post immediately following your first one in this thread. As for doubting human contributions, fair enough. No point arguing with people in a day and age when they applaud the fact that we have a lawyer running the EPA whose only agenda has been to eliminate all environmental protections and facilitate ways for polluting companies to get around even rules and laws put in place by congress. The age of cheering ignorance has returned (again, see the post immediately after your first one).
Or the current disaster within our HHS department. Worse than a know-nothing lawyer who failed the bar exam multiple times, but a heroine addict know nothing lawyer. Yeah, us.
