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Originally Posted by magic452
I'm nine days older than dirt and in all my years I have yet to see an "EXPERT" predict a future event in regards to the climate short term or long.
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In 1963 I visited Salt Lake City, eight years before I actually moved here. At that time local scientists were predicting that at the then-current rate of receding, the lake would be nothing but a salt flat by the end of the century.
In 1975 they noticed that the lake had stopped drying and had stabilized. They said that the likely answer was that at some point the salinity was so high that the water stopped evaporating.
1983: After two record winters (Alta had almost twice its 500-inch fall, and at some points the snow was over 200 inches deep), the huge underwater storage tanks were full and Salt Lake City got flooded. State Street was turned into a sandbag river for several months.
1985: The Great Salt Lake had risen from 29 feet at the deepest point to 34 feet, and some folks were worried that the city itself would be threatened. The worst that happened was that the water table under the airport came close to making the runways sag, but the only real problem was that the freeway and railroads had to be raised and moved at quite an expense.
The point is that once again the experts had no real clue as to what was going to happen.