Cue the glue sniffing aliens guy...
Posted on 08/17/2015 8:27:43 AM PDT by fishtank
Don’t confuse ice sheets covering land mass with ice “shelves” covering ocean. The latter melting do not change sea levels, as they’re already floating in water.
Proof positive globull warming was caused by Ice Age dwellers.
Cue the glue sniffing aliens guy...
Uh, no. Thanks Red Badger.
> Water is a zero sum game. If it’s covering land masses hundreds of feet thick over hundreds or thousands of miles, the sea levels must be lower while that’s going on. After those ice sheets melt, sea levels must rise.
And the Earth isn’t a balloon, so if part of the surface used to be lower, other parts had to be higher.
These civilizations built on this side of your beloved ice age.
Why is anything old and big considered genius engineering feats? People even concoct bizaar alien stories to explain these things.
There is nothing all that difficult, engineering wise, about building a pyramid. There is not some magical formula unknown to the ancients. It is simple geometry. Simple geometry and an endless supply of expendable labor.
Depends on if the ice masses are above land or sea as the sea level will actually lower if the ice that melts is only in the ocean. Also, some of the water mass is taken up by plants and new forestation as the temperature increases above 0 degrees.
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