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Dec 03, 2009 6:30 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: 35 Inconvenient Truths > Green Copenhagen has limits |
Thomas Holford
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Ed and Yvonne Servis sayeth:
> I heard on a news report several years back about indian artifacts being exposed by a receeding glacier. How could that be? Doen't that mean the glaciers have been moving forward and backwars for a long time. I never heard of this again but I thought I would see if I could find some archaelogical information that would tie into this global warming debate.
It is a geological fact that their have been many periods of "glaciation" or "ice ages". That last ice age lasted from about 100,000 years ago to about 10,000 years ago. Up to one third of the earth's land mass was covered in ice and snow.
Because so much of the earths water was locked up in glaciers, the sea levels were about 200 to 300 feet lower than they are today.
There are many, many pre-modern ruins of cities that are underwater. I have heard or read stories of ancient ruins being found on the bottom of the North Sea, the Black Sea, and along coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea.
The famous mummified remains of an ancient hunter, nicknamed Otzi, who was found in the Swiss-Italian Alps, dates from about 5,000 years ago. His death occurred when the glaciers from the last ice age were receding.
http://www.crystalinks.com/oetzi.html
According to the warming quack version of history, though, the ice ages really only ended in the mid-eighteen hundreds when mankind initiated an "industrial revolution" and started burning massive amounts of fossil fuels.
So, between about eighteen fifty and today, the sea levels rose about 250 feet. Before eighteen fifty, there were land bridges between Spain and North Africa, between Italy and Sicily, between Alaska and Siberia, and between Florida and Cuba.
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