Speaking of climate change, I just went to The Weather Channel to check the forecast for this week. The Weather Channel is very much on the side of climate change being indisputable, accepted scientific fact, so it was no surprise to see the slant they threw at a story about Scituate, Massachusetts, which suffered devastating flooding during a series of strong nor'easters in March of this year.
https://features.weather.com/exodus/chapter/never-the-same-every-year/But the reality is that storms are never predictable, and changes to seashores are inevitable. Sometimes the shoreline gets eaten away, other times it gets built up. There was a story a few months back about a town, I think in Ireland, that used to have a beautiful beach many years ago. Then the beach was eroded. Recently, it came back. (I don't recall if it subsequently went away again.)
Of course, what the article doesn't tell us is that it's not the entire town of Scituate that's washing away, it's houses built directly on the beach. And parts of Scituate, if you look it up on Google Maps, is basically coastal dunes and barrier islands. Not quite "islands," but barrier peninsulas -- basically like Long Island is to Connecticut and Rhode Island, or like Galveston and Goat Island are to Texas, but on a smaller scale.
The fact is that nothing should be built in/on such locations in the first place. But acknowledging that wouldn't support he narrative, so those words must never be spoken or written.
