Nils Axel Morner is dead. Prior to that, he was alive and demonstrably, measurably, incorrect.
The vigorous discussion happened for a solid two decades, starting about four decades ago. If Kiawah residents want to keep being Kiawah residents, it's time to stop indulging mouth-breathers with vigorous chitchat and start spending money on infrastructure to deal with problems that are already raising their heads, regularly, today.
It's too bad the article is behind a paywall. There's some really great irony in it, like the part where a guy who publicly calls climate change a "Chinese hoax" also is asking for government-sponsored protection to the coastline of his seaside course.