massive tidal wave that swept across the North Sea c. 5800 BCGiant wave hit ancient ScotlandA giant wave flooded Scotland about 7,000 years ago, a scientist revealed on Friday. The tsunami left a trail of destruction along what is now the eastern coast of the country. Scientists believe a landslide on the ocean floor off Storegga, south-west Norway, triggered the wave. Speaking at the British Association Festival of Science in Glasgow, Professor David Smith said a tsunami could strike again in the area but the probability was extremely unlikely. Radiocarbon dating of sediments taken from the coastline of eastern Scotland put the date of the event at about 5,800 BC. At the time, Britain was joined to mainland Europe by a land bridge. ..."It looks as if those people were happily sitting in their camp when this wave from the sea hit the camp," Professor Smith of the department of Geography at Coventry University told BBC News Online.
by Helen Briggs
Friday, September 7, 2001
BBC News Online
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Interesting.
Another case of man made climate catastrophe. Most people don’t know it but there were a species of humans whose genetic code made them have large thumbs which they used to stick in holes in dikes and a certain unmentionable part of their body.
Occassionally, sheer boredom, religious ritual, or the need for climate change led to a change in the respective positions of the thumbs—often with disastrous result.
So let me make sure this is clear. If not for the European raping of the North American continent, destroying the natural frozen state of the climate, Britain would still connected to the European continent? When will justice finally prevail? We must HURRY UP and shoot the sulfur diox-acallit into the atmosphere, and reflect the heat back out to space.....without the ice we will all die.
