The Everglades are vanishing, or
something:The apocalyptic report by Lakeisha Ethans for The Travel, lays out “7 places in America that might not exist soon,” if climate change continues unabated.
The disappearance of “the majestic glaciers of Glacier National Park,” for instance, is a “looming threat due to the relentless march of climate change,” Ms. Ethans cautions.
In subdued and dispassionate tones, the article asserts that rising sea levels are “swallowing coastal cities,” extreme weather events are “wreaking havoc,” and once-abundant wildlife is “facing extinction.”
New Orleans, Louisiana, is “on the frontlines of climate change” Ethans writes, and is threatened by “the relentless rise of sea levels and the sinking of its landmass.”
Because of this, the city of New Orleans “could be partially underwater by 2050 due to the increasing threat of sea level rise,” she adds.
There's just one problem:
Earlier this summer, the New York Times acknowledged that island nations are not, in fact, in danger of sinking under the seas due to climate change, despite what alarmists have predicted.
In a June 26 article titled “The Vanishing Islands that Failed to Vanish,” New York Times climate reporter Raymond Zhong chronicled the surprising find that atoll nations — like the Maldives, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu, which seemed doomed to vanish — somehow have not.
The same could be said for the swamp...
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