Such beach decorations exhibit the fervent belief of activists that sea levels are rising fast and will flood the coastlines is we don’t stop burning fossil fuels. As we will see below there is a concerted effort to promote this notion empowered with slick imaging tools to frighten the gullible. Of course there are frequent media releases sounding the alarms. Recently for example:
From the Guardian Up to 410 million people at risk from sea level rises – study. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
The paper, published in Nature Communications, finds that currently 267 million people worldwide live on land less than 2 metres above sea level. Using a remote sensing method called Lidar, which pulsates laser light across coastal areas to measure elevation on the Earth’s surface, the researchers predicted that by 2100, with a 1 metre sea level rise and zero population growth, that number could…
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