Conspiracy - it helps to understand before buying in...

In simple terms, people believe what they want to believe, and it's typically very difficult to change that.

That's absurdly, completely, insanely wrong, and yet you've chosen to believe it. At the very least, you haven't checked to see if even makes sense.

The surface area of the earth is about 200 million square miles, using this formula: area = radius squared x 4 x pi.

Now, what is '1/6th trillionth' in your statement? Is it '1/6th of a trillion' (which is about 167 billion), meaning 1/167,000,000,000 of the earth's surface is populated by humans? Or is it '1 sixtrillionth' 1/6,000,000,000,000, meaning 1/6,000,000,000,000 of the earth's surface is populated by humans?

For your sake, let's assume the former. In that case, humans populate an area of about 200,000,000 / 167,000,000,000 miles, or about 0.0012 square miles. Do you still want to believe that?

If you want to say something intelligent about this, you first need to define what 'occupy' means. Does it mean how much land area our bodies occupy? If so, is that standing up, sitting, or lying down? Does it mean how much land our cities, farms, and other modified areas of the planet occupy? Decide.

Actually, you should first decide if such a comparison even matters. A single volcano with a relatively small surface area can influence climate over the whole earth if it erupts endlessly, as human activity in general has been doing for centuries, and human industrial activity has been doing for decades.

the maldives were suppose to be under water by 2020 that the scientists forcast back in 1980 🤪 wonder why they just built a billion dollar resort on the beach the last few years 🤔 btw i owned a research vessel. i wonder how much "you" dont get told or the public 😁

I'm not going to play Donald. The precise forecasts were erroneous for the reasons I have already explained. The basic facts and direction of Climate Change remain rock solid. Try telling the Pacific islands that their villages aren't disappearing into the ocean. Conversation over.

Must be a hell of a lot of places we've not yet photographed then...

climatefactchecks.org/did-ipcc-predict-the-maldives-would-be-underwater-by-2018/

Regardless, even if they had made that forecast back in 1980 (which they didn't, be even if), it would have been a best guess prediction from 65 years ago without the benefit of all the additional data and computing power that we have today. It would be like saying "In 1980, physicists predicted we'd have working fusion power plants by 2000" as "proof" that commercially viable fusion power is a hoax.

I will try and set the record straight though.

Most atolls are sinking to some degree. It is a reality of the volcanoes they sit on. The fact that some journalist conflated that with sea rise due to global warming and no doubt exaggerated the rate is unfortunate but none the less if donald wants to believe everything he hears then we will rarely get any common sense from him.

You didn't hear it from a scientist donald, you heard it from a journalist. You need to learn to fact check or find a more reputable news source.

😂 geeks where not real hip at school, lacked social skills and imagination. my daughter said its the same at uni. 🫣 cant you see where my post was going 🤔