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Sea Level 2000 years ago higher than today
BBC ^ | October 2, 2008 | BBC

Posted on 05/02/2017 9:27:56 AM PDT by z3n

"But what is really exciting is that we have actually found the Roman foreshore while digging in a deep trench alongside the remains of a Roman wall." "Mr Wilmott said the Roman coastline was the original shore at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD."

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TOPICS: History; Politics; Science; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; sealevel
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To: I want the USA back
On an polar anniversary expedition, some relative of Amundsen, maybe, buried a watch in a waterproof box at the North Pole.

A few years later, some Scandinavian kid found the box at a beach.

That suggests that "new" precipitation displaces the less-than-new cover off the ice cap.

I have no idea about the balance between the thickness, that is, what melts on the bottom versus how new cover is integrated onto the cap.

21 posted on 05/02/2017 10:33:41 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: central_va
I read if the glaciers that cover Greenland melted completely then the sea level would rise 100 ft.

Well, first consider this: 70.9% of this planet is covered in World Ocean which is approx. 139.7 MILLION square miles.....

The island of Greenland is only 836,300 square miles with approx. 660,000 square miles of permanent ice which varies from only a few meters thick at the perimeter (which is constantly melting and freezing by the way) to a few thousand feet at the center and deepest point of the ice mass which will likely never melt do the average extreme cold.

Is Greenland REALLY that big?

With that being said, there isn't enough ice on Greenland to even raise the oceans a couple of feet if it were to all melt......and that ain't ever going to happen.

22 posted on 05/02/2017 10:44:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: HLPhat

I was just about to remark that I’m on a 2000 foot mountain and I can go out in the back yard and kick up sea lily and various seashell fossils with no effort.

I’m pretty certain they didn’t all just walk here.


23 posted on 05/02/2017 10:50:10 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: HLPhat

Funny. I was just thinking about the valleys of California in the same vein...


24 posted on 05/02/2017 10:53:18 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vermont Lt

Life on earth has not always been the pleasant, idyllic, scene that we are all used to today.

And then gawd created Maxxim Magazine just in time for summer...

Man, I hate living in California.

The rains finally stopped, the sun came out and the women began their annual donning of summer wear...


25 posted on 05/02/2017 10:57:51 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: freedumb2003

Okay....that’s funny...LOL...


26 posted on 05/02/2017 11:01:44 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Hot Tabasco

If the entire 2,850,000 cubic kilometres (684,000 cu mi) of ice were to melt, it would lead to a global sea level rise of 7.2 m (24 ft).[2] The Greenland Ice Sheet is sometimes referred to under the term inland ice, or its Danish equivalent, indlandsis. It is also sometimes referred to as an ice cap.


27 posted on 05/02/2017 11:02:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: z3n

During the Ice Age, Sears was unable to sell even one refrigerator.


28 posted on 05/02/2017 11:15:16 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: z3n

bkmk


29 posted on 05/02/2017 11:21:08 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: z3n
Oh I remember... It's "Climate Change" now. Not "Global Warming"

Of course. Before they changed the name, EVERY PREDICTION, 100% OF THEM WAS WRONG FO5 50 YEARS.
Rather THAN CONFESS THAT THEY WERE JUST MAKING S**T UP TO GET TAXPAYER MONEY AND CONTROL THE GULLIBLE, THEY JUST CHANGED THE NAME.

Now climate change can be blamed for everything, from sea rise, sea drop, too much CO2, not enough CO2, snow during warm seasons, heat deaths during winters, droughts, flooding, Athlete's foot, dying trees, too many trees, forest fires, mosquitos, too many bees, not enough bees, ad infinitum.

The beauty with total ignorance and uncompromising dedication to control everyone else, is that proving them wrong is literally impossible, and there can never be any form of doom and gloom where the criminals can't figure out how to exploit the ignorance of the average dummy watching "dancing with the stars," "survivor" and "Entertainment Tonight"

And of course, the perfect all purpose imbecility magnet, "Playing with myself and my cell phone..."
Strangely, functional retard groups can't learn a trade, become literate verbally or in writing, and get a job and pay taxes, but can get a telephone to entertain them 24/7/365, and produce an endless string of little bastards...; generations on welfare forever!

30 posted on 05/02/2017 11:56:37 AM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: SpinnerWebb
Heal our Earth??
Act now or swim later?
WTF??

How about Restore insane asylums? I would rather pay to keep them locked up than try to argue with the ignorant insane whose solution is always violence against those who disagree.

That combination of eternal anger and total ignorance is always a lethal combination for someone.

I'd rater it be the nut cases.

31 posted on 05/02/2017 12:57:48 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: z3n
How could it be possible that sea levels were significantly higher 2000 years ago?

Go to Sedona Arizona, those red mountains were under water, that's how they formed.

32 posted on 05/02/2017 12:59:28 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: central_va
The Greenland ice sheet isn't melting anywhere near as fast as you think.
33 posted on 05/02/2017 1:17:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

I didn’t say it was melting at all. I just said IF it were to melt.


34 posted on 05/02/2017 1:18:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: publius911

It’s one giant tax scam that has millions terrified and brainwashed.


35 posted on 05/02/2017 1:22:17 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: z3n
Picture Rocks, Lake Superior

The horizontal cuts into the surface of the cliffs represent water levels over the past eons…….

The Grand Canyon

Again, notice the horizontal cuts in the surface of the cliffs. They too represent the varying water levels of the canyon over the eons…..

So how do the so called climate experts explain these obviously naturally occurring phenomenon that involves literally thousands of feet of disappearing water levels in the case of the Grand Canyon?

36 posted on 05/02/2017 1:46:05 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: central_va
I didn’t say it was melting at all.

I wasn't implying that you did...........Sorry if you interpreted it that way.....

37 posted on 05/02/2017 1:51:21 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Vermont Lt
Further down the line, that water ran off to the Gulf of California down what is today the Colorado river basin and the Grand Canyon area. You can see the water marks carved into the entire Western part of the continent.

Hmmm.
All this time I have been convinced that the Western States' role in the catastrophes was the break in the ice dam holding back Lake Missoula between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago.
Whether the meteor strike and the plains "lake" played a part may have been many millennia apart.

38 posted on 05/02/2017 2:18:16 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: I want the USA back

16.302915 Meters


39 posted on 05/02/2017 2:43:31 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: central_va

Hmmm. Greenland...I wonder why they named it that...


40 posted on 05/02/2017 2:46:31 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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