[Junior]

Believe it or not, heavy glaciation and the resultant drop in sea levels is associated with global warming.

[ClearCase_guy]

It's true. Lower sea levels are evidence of Global Warming. Higher sea levels, too. And it goes without saying that warmer weather is associated with Global Warming. But what many people don't know is that colder weather is also evidence of Global Warming. And although the jury is still out on this, some people assert that lack of climate change is also a sign of Global Warming.

[The Shootist]

"Believe it or not, heavy glaciation and the resultant drop in sea levels is associated with global warming."

But the ice caps melted . . .

For as long as I can remember we have been told that man crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America during the last ice age, more or less 14,000 years ago. The land bridge formed because of the drop in sea level due to heavy glaciation. Fine.

Now we are being told that +- 52 MYA the ice caps melted and animals crossed the resulting land bridge. If the ice caps melted, indeed the ice caps have melted and re-formed many, many times, sea levels would rise and there would be LESS land, not more.

If what you say is true and global warming trends, tend to produce large-scale glaciers, then why are glaciers shrinking world-wide?

On the other hand if glaciers do indeed increase in size and number during periodic warming events this would bolster the argument of the existance of positive and negative feedback loops in the global weather system. As graciation increases more of the Sun's energy is reflected back into space lowering over-all global temps.