La Palma is indeed very interesting, but this kind of talk makes me take the author much less seriously than I would have otherwise.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard for a good summary of the risks.
That's a pretty major factor.
> most collapses in the Canary Islands took place as multistage events that are not as effective at creating tsunamis
Makes me question the OP. Hacked account or someone who promotes disinformation? It isn’t hard to find much better sources, so why use a trash source?
My thinking was either the OP didn't read all of it (bad) or didn't find the tinfoil stuff shocking enough to completely disqualify the rest of the content from being worth reading (bad) or the OP simply agrees with the article author (bad).
The fourth alternative "Well the article was interesting and I didn't really think just one crazy tinfoil paragraph changes that" doesn't make any sense to me tbh.
But this link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard) mentioned above, was maybe better source to share indeed.
With that said, I think there's a valid point there. Even if the chances of a large tsunami hitting the east coast of NA are low (chance of having an eruption, chance of that eruption being large, and chance of that eruption causing 500km^3 of displaced earth), the amount of destruction it could cause should at least prompt some analysis as to what could be done to mitigate that damage. Especially since there are likely useful public works projects that could be done to mitigate damage from climate change anyway.
If you did public works to protect against this, then they would help you against climate change. But if you did public works to protect against climate change, they would not protect against this, because this is maybe 3 times worse. (Nobody that I have ever heard is talking about an 80 foot sea level rise from climate change.)
E.g. ensuring New Orleans' pumps are in working condition, and a levee system is built to survive overtopping without collapsing.
The difference between a crisis and a catastrophe is how quickly mitigation kicks in after an event.
Mmhmm. Nothing burnishes credibility like devoting column space to how they're out to get you.