[alexander_busek]

Once upon a time there was a massive flood across the Mediterranean Sea, an in-pouring of water so huge that [..]

This flood occurred 5.3 million years ago way before modern man even existed.

Exactly! I wonder why the author of this article chose to not begin with that salient fact!

Regards,

[D Rider]

salient fact

Theory not fact. Theories by definition are never fact. The best you can do is have a theory that resists disapproval. You know, that falsification thingy that global warmists ignore. And if a theory is untestable, it is meaningless, by definition.

[gleeaikin]

The Med. has dried up a number of times and been reflooded. This 5 million year old flood was certainly a major one as reading blam’s link on the Zantean flood points out. It also probably had an impact on north Africa and this was the time when the first hominids were evolving and have been discovered. Another major climate event was the closing of the straits of Panama about 3 million years ago which would have had a significant impact on things like the Gulf Stream, although that could also have begun quite a bit earlier as the gap shrank.