In 1970, The Boston Globe ran the headline, “Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century.” The Washington Post, for its part, published a Columbia University scientist’s claim that the world could be “as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age.”
to
Believe the media at your own peril
Keep in mind that the earth's continents has been part of a continental drift for 4.5 billion years. This may be a cause for some lands disappearing and others appearing.
The Torrest Stait was part of land bridges which connected Terra Australis to PNG and Tasmania and one can expect that the remainder of the TI islands will continue to disappear in the future regardless of what the climate does
