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Yep, the oceans used to be a lot lower than they are today. Shores used to be miles further out to sea than they are now. Then again, back then everything was covered in a hellacious amount of ice, so I don't think whatever was around back then cared too much about the extra few miles of "dry" land. Then about 18,000-6,000 years ago was a period of very fast rising of ocean levels, something like 30-40 mm per year. This of course corresponded to the massive ice shelves melting off of North America. Oddly enough, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when ocean levels were 6 meters higher than today, then retreated again. This is shown by the remains of coral reefs that are now high and dry above the ocean, and also by evidence of wave action on cliffs and stuff like that. So the ocean rose, stabilized, rose very quickly, fell again and is now rising slowly again. Most of this happened before man began the industrial revolution and started spewing many so-called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This suggests to me that "global warming" is nothing more than a natural cycle that has been blown out of proportion by the media and by environmental scientists who want big research grants...

I'm not saying mankind hasn't accelerated the process, but I bet it was coming anyways. The real questions are: To what effect are mankinds emmissions into the atmosphere truely effecting the natural cycle of things, Is is possible/practical/feasible to slow the amount of greenhouse gases that are let into the atmosphere, What would be the positive and negative results of the Earth's mean temperature rising by a couple degrees and would the positive outweigh the negative. Questions like this need to be answered before I'll even have a chance of truly believing the alarmists and start losing sleep over this issue.
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