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Try telling that to the people of New Orleans. Building any city below sea level on the coastline is a recipe for disaster.
Holland has just built a fantastic sea defence system to prevent the same thing happening to them.
Predictions merely give us the opportunity to see possible outcomes and to prepare for them. Invariably, when we fail to take basic preparations some disaster happens.
We are already seeing worsening weather round the world; sea levels are rising; trees and plants which absorbed excess CO2 are being cut down; there's a hole in the Ozone layer caused by CFCs etc. That does suggest lines of action we can take.
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None of which actually disproves what I said. New Orleans, while a disaster, isn't proof that the world is ending.
We are seeing worsening weather around the world, true. Sea levels are rising, also true. However, we don't have enough data to say what is causing those things to happen. It could merely be a function of nature.
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As for personality predicting, I suppose it depends what happens in those two minutes.
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Not really, as without knowning someone for a lot longer than two minutes, you have no way of knowing if they are acting within character or not. You could meet me for two minutes, and I may be in a bad mood. You may then assume I am permanently in a bad mood, which may or may not be the case.
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TBH, I am not saying the world isn't ending. Put simply, I don't know. However, AFAIK, neither does the scientific community. Hence, all we have heard MAY just be scare stories based on an inadequate knowledge of the planet's weather systems.