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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Wait... WHAT?
This may not be news to some of you but based on the crap feed of information I get from the general media, I was under the assumption that sea levels have steadily been rising since the last glacial period 18k year ago.
How could it be possible that sea levels were significantly higher 2000 years ago?
Oh I remember... It's "Climate Change" now. Not "Global Warming"
“I was having coffee Sunday morning and on TV in the background (History Chanel I believe) was a documentary series about the History of the Romans in Britain, and they mentioned the first Roman Fort was built in Kent near their first beachhead for their invasion fleet in 43AD, and that the fort now being excavated and researched is a good deal away from the current coast due to the fact that the sea level was higher then.
Wait... WHAT? “
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Great fact that I’m glad that you posted—I was unaware of this.
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Can someone calculate the height of polar caps that would have to melt to raise the sea level one inch? If you have the data, this is not a hard calculation. Help me out here.
Not only was sea level higher when the Romans were in Britain, they also grew massive grape vinyards due to the warmer temps, aka Medieval Warming Period.
The arctic ice cap is suspended in water so when it melts annually the sea level is not affected. Only glacier that cover a land mass will raise sea levels. I read if the glaciers that cover Greenland melted completely then the sea level would rise 100 ft. There is a huge volume of water over Greenland.
Water levels go up and down.... ground elevation goes up and down. It might be significant or not. It might relate to something natural or not. It might have been the result of things such as tectonic plates shifting or not. Hard to get too excited about much of this except in an “well that’s interesting...” sort of way.
>>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<<
Roman bris?
“The ancient city of Ephesus was an important port city and commercial hub from the Bronze Age to the Minoan Warm period, and continuing through the Roman Empire. An historic map shows its location right on the sea. But today, in modern-day Turkey, Ephesus is 5 km from the Mediterranean. Some historians erroneously claim “river silting” caused the change, but the real “culprit” was sea level change.”
Source: WUWT (not exactly the BBC but yeah)
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/02/history-falsifies-climate-alarmist-sea-level-claims/
The state was submerged under a warm shallow sea. At least part of Colorado was covered by shallow water during the Middle Ordovician. At the time, Colorado was home to invertebrates like articulated brachiopods, conodonts, gastropods, ostracods, pelecypods, sponges, trilobites, and worms (known from trace fossils).
Paleontology in Colorado - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology_in_Colorado
The Russians stole the water? No, Hillary sold them all the water.
The medieval warm period was 950-1250 AD. The Roman Warm Period was 250BC-400AD. Roughly the 1st Punic War almost to the Goths sacking Rome in 410 for the Romans.
The medieval warm period corresponds to Erik the Red in Greenland to just past the 4th Crusade.
There is only one polar ice cap.
The ice in the Arctic is floating on water. If it melted in its entirety, it would not raise the sea level a single inch.
The ice in the Antarctic is chiefly in areas where the temperature never exceeds -100 degrees farenheit. So it could never plausible melt.
Whatever increase in sea level occurs will be the result of melting around the southern edges of Greenland, or by the expansion of water molecules as they warm. Neither will be that significant, less than a foot.
Yeah, when they found Troy, it was miles from the coast, but it used to be on the water.
Those chariots were guzzlers....and those lions had mega farts.
There are remnants of docks and harbors on the coast of Chile. Three hundred feet higher than the current sea level.
The earth spins, continents move, water rises and falls.
When something as old as the planet is considered...my guess is that “it” has seen it all.
There was a huge lake, first in the Canadian arctic. It was the remnants of a ice sheet that was melted by an impact of a asteroid or comet. That sheet was vaporized at the site and melted for hundreds of miles. That water flowed down into the basin that makes up the plains of the US.
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.
Some of those things took thousands of years. Others were carved in a few years.
Life on earth has not always been the pleasant, idyllic, scene that we are all used to today.
Something the size of a football field hits us...and its lights out for everyone but the roaches.
What it is is a proven excuse to win unaccountable, unconstitutional funding from a corrupt federal government.
Antarctica is 5.4 million square miles.
Greenland is 0.8 million square miles.
The first oceans are 139.7 million square miles.
So it would take 22.5 inches of ice melting to raise the ocean one inch.
This skipped less than 100% ice coverage of the land and lower density of ice. Both would increase the ice melt needed slightly.
Since the end of the last glacial period, much of Europe that had been covered with ice is “rebounding” with the weight of the ice gone, and are higher relative to the sea than in the past. This area is literally rising up out of the sea.
Movement of the ground relative to sea level makes it difficult to measure if/how much the sea is rising, altho I think that generally, sea levels have been rising during the past 12,000 years.
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