Sea-level doom from Antarctic melting

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  1. Paul Gregory

    Paul Gregory Senior Member

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    You wouldn't have to go back that far. I think they're finding evidence of a gigantic flood about 8000 years ago, that filled the basin that is now the Black Sea.
     
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    I think you might be off a bit; 700 million years ago, there were no dinosaurs or even any complex life.
     
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    66 million years ago the dinosaurs got hit with a meteor 6 miles in diameter going 65,000 mph. 112 mile diameter crater 19 miles deep. Covered with sediment today, discovered by oil exploration, the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan. 600 mph shock wave reached middle of the USA. 500 ft high tidal wave went all the way to Africa. Magnitude 10 earthquakes worldwide. Blast energy estimated at 72 trillion tons of TNT, 25 trillion metric tons of excavated material was ejected into the atmosphere by the blast . Molten rocks were splattered out into space and fell back to earth, some even escaped earth orbit. Firestorm burned 70% of plant life. Smoke and debris blocked sun for 5 to 10 years. 75% of animals extinct. Evidenced by a dark band of burn debris worldwide, the K-T boundary layer.

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    I did not know that.
     
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    Do you mean change to the tilt of the axis of rotation? I googled that the other day, and AI summary said it does change, mentioned glacier melt and intensive pumping of ground water reserves as factors.
     
  6. T1 Terry

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    You don't think fact would get in the way of a good B/S story did you, never has before, doubt it will in the future.

    Those that believe and push these stories show a major flaw in their critical thinking education .....

    T1 Terry
     
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    The shift in the magnetic poles has also been blamed, it causes the sun's active and calm cycles, maybe it could affect the earth's climate, or moving all the coal from one side of the planet to the other, only to burn it and make it lighter :confused: .... or is it the one thing they can measure, percentage of carbon and methane in the atmosphere and the corelation to rising sea temperatures and sea levels ....... but who would believe something that can actually be measure against wild theories born out of greed to not change the status quo and interrupt their money generating efforts they spent so much establishing and then denying they were causing any harm ..... sound familiar, sort of straight out of the tobacco industries' play book .... or is that still in denial as well .....

    Very hard to change anyone's deep down belief that they are smarter than everyone else ......

    T1 Terry
     
  8. Paul Gregory

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    I doubt that all the resources the world could muster,
    would be capable of putting the world's climate into stasis.