This is what caused this to start 10000 years ago?
Posted on 10/21/2017 8:06:18 AM PDT by rktman
BUT if a continent-wide mile-thick glacier on land melts, and that water runs into the ocean, the sea level rises.
For extra points, 80% of the world population and most of our modern infrastructure is within 200 ft of the current sea level. At the end of the last ice ace sea levels rose 350-400 ft. Where are any archeological remains from any technological civilization that might have existed then?
But if you put a funnel in a water filled glass and put an ice cube in the funnel (representing ice on land) the melt water will overflow the glass. So only the land-based ice is a concern, and most of that is at the south pole.
SOUTH POLE – The South Pole recorded its highest temperature on record on Christmas Day, when temperatures reached 9.9F (-12.3C), according to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC).
While calling the new record "warm" may be going a step too far, it is positively balmy compared to June 23, 1982, when the temperature at the South Pole site reached a record low of -117F (-82.8C). - FOX News Tech
I don't think we're in much danger of drowning.
The technology for undersea exploration has existed for so short a time, and the area to be inspected is so immense that it would take a great deal of luck to find any evidence.
Right. Sure ... and the great penguin die off will come to an end.
Not to mention corrosion from 10,000 years of salt water, sand and silt.
Even if we did recover a chunk of 10,000 year old I-beam, would we recognize it as something INCONCEIVABLE! or pass it off as part of a more recent shipwreck or a garbage dump?
With any luck we can turn around the mass extinction event with the polar bears that algore tells us about. Just have them migrate south. Sheesh. It ain’t rocket science. Reference this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4997538/Polar-bears-hold-Russian-villagers-hostage.html
Guess no one told the bears huh? Possibly MS-13 bears?
At the bottom of Lake Huron, approx. 250 ft. deep, scuba divers found submerged hunting structures which were likely used by prehistoric hunters hunting migrating caribou.....
This is what caused this to start 10000 years ago?
I can't speak for the rest of the world... but just a little over 10,000 years ago the place where we live in Washington State was still covered with about a mile of ice. That is the blink of an eye in geologic time. When all that frozen water melted and ran into the ocean it helped to raise the overall sea level a bit.
Interestingly enough the sea level in the Northwest Washington actually went down when the glaciers here melted back. The weight of all of that ice was pushing down on the land mass and when it melted the land actually rose causing the sea level here to drop.
10000 year old CAGW*.
*Caveman Anthropogenic Glowbull Wharming.
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
The most recent data from NASA shows a decline in sea level.
Inconvenient: NASA shows global sea level…pausing, instead of rising
This land bridge puzzles me.
If Canada was covered in 2 miles of ice, wouldn’t Alaska, Siberia, & the Bering Sea land bridge be covered as well? And wouldn’t such ice covered land be nearly barren of life; so barren that any migration to cross it would lead to starvation?
Someone had a rendering of where the glaciers were. Anyone? Bueller?
The Ice Age megafauna migrated back & forth.
Also Eskimos spend time on the ice hunt seals, etc. and do alright. (Well they used to! Now they probably get a government check & watch soaps.) Humans survive in some pretty harsh places.
“The Ice Age megafauna migrated back & forth.”
On what? Hundreds of miles of barren ice with nothing to eat? Or perhaps a thin strip of coastline flanked by the sea on one side & a 2 mile high wall of ice on the other poring melt water into the ocean?
Can anyone recommend a good video that explains all this?
The land bridge was not always pure ice, there were times when it was like Alaska. Also you’re forgetting that sea levels are much much lower during Ice Ages. I am thinking the land bridge most of the time was tundra-like. There are a number of hardy tundra living animals.
Also in the Bering Strait area they have actually dredged up spear points & if I remember this right processed bone.
But we Stopped the Global Warming in the 70’s when the next Ice Age was upon us, Now that we have Climate Change the seas still have not began to rise.
What are these people smoking, and do they have any left?
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