r/Futurology • u/carbonbrief • 3d ago

Environment Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink

https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-warming-is-exposing-new-coastlines-and-islands-as-arctic-glaciers-shrink/
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u/APRengar 3d ago

Stop reacting to only the title and assuming "oh wow, the beaches in Florida are getting bigger??? Wow, you scientists are sure wrong about EVERYTHING aren't you? Sounds like a win to me."

You guys are conflating two things.

1) This IS NOT referring to a rising ocean. Which still WILL destroy coastlines around the world.

2) This IS referring to ice melting in the arctic north, revealing coasts that were under the ice.

tl;dr: If your coastline is not currently covered with ice, it's going to be shrinking and not growing.

If you want to post about how the ocean isn't rising (as already seen by a person in the comments), you picked a bad article to post it under, because it does not support your belief. You read the title and got excited or are purposefully lying.