I guess this is one case where they should've abbreviated the year to '20'.
The new estimate is 2030. Most of the ones that are left have gotten pretty small.
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#12Beaver Lake in Vancouver's Stanley Park was predicted to fill in and become a meadow in a couple thousand years. Then it was predicted to be filled by 2020. But it's not. It might be soon. In ten years or maybe a hundred years. We're just really bad at predicting such things accurately. In the case of Beaver Lake, it'll probably get dredged and predictions will become moot.
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#13fear-mongering much?
Wut?
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#14I guess this is one case where they should've abbreviated the year to '20'.
Or just use flip cards
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#15Was hoping for more detail on the predicted vs actual change beyond what the headline could tell me. Or even if they have a new prediction.
Edit: This table is helpful https://www.usgs.gov/data-tools/area-named-glaciers-glacier-...
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#16That's weird, I'm pretty sure in the 80s I read that by 2020 the Earth would be a giant ball of smoldering fire
Have you seen what's going on in Australia and the Amazon right about now?
Yeah, fire because of arson?
There were much bigger fires past due to lack of fire supplies. What's your point?
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#17I imagine this is perfect for climate change deniers. Climate change is very difficult to fight because both undershooting and overshooting your predictions can come back and hurt you.
Unfortunately climate change became a political stance more than a science.
It is now extremely difficult to get straight facts from both sides of this debate. Both sides feel like thy need to completely overstate and exaggerate the facts in order to create fear, urgency and hate for the other side.
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#19That's weird, I'm pretty sure in the 80s I read that by 2020 the Earth would be a giant ball of smoldering fire
Citation needed
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#20That's weird, I'm pretty sure in the 80s I read that by 2020 the Earth would be a giant ball of smoldering fire
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