1 posted on
02/12/2009 7:51:15 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Global Warming started five million years ago in anticipation of the Industrial Revolution, I guess. :)
2 posted on
02/12/2009 7:54:28 PM PST by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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3 posted on
02/12/2009 7:56:02 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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4 posted on
02/12/2009 7:56:25 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
5 posted on
02/12/2009 7:59:12 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
Can we please seal off Washington DC so it will dry up and die.
6 posted on
02/12/2009 8:02:16 PM PST by
Licensed-To-Carry
(Time to dig out the pitchforks and torches...............)
To: SunkenCiv
The earliest known incident of “global warming?”
7 posted on
02/12/2009 8:11:36 PM PST by
FlingWingFlyer
(Have You Punched A Democrat Today? - Do it for the children.)
To: SunkenCiv
8 posted on
02/12/2009 8:13:38 PM PST by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the update on this amazing story from earth's past. This setting, the evaporated Mediterranean basin, was used in a very entertaining sci-fi/fantasy series by Julian May:
The Saga of Pliocene Exile. It had "everything" - aliens,time travel, prehistoric beasties, Irish mythology, psychic powers, etc.
To: SunkenCiv
I saw the heading on the post and wondered when Helen Thomas changed her name from Mediterranean Sea.
10 posted on
02/12/2009 8:53:27 PM PST by
optiguy
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
To: SunkenCiv
That must have been some dry hole. The Mediterranean Sea averages about 5,000’ deep with a max depth of 16,000’
To: SunkenCiv
I guess the mechanism is news, because the scientific knowledge that this happened goes back decades. I remember seeing an artist's conception of the "Falls of Gibraltar" (when the land bridge blocking the Straits of Gibraltar was breached) from the late 1970s? The picture sort of looked like super-Iguazu.
Messinian Salinity Crisis
To: SunkenCiv
After being separated for 170,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean were once again connected. Govers believes that the movement of the Earth's crust played a crucial role. The African Plate subducts under the Eurasian Plate beneath Gibraltar and the weight of the subducting edge of the African Plate may have pulled the entire region downwards.I would have paid a bundle to have a front row seat on the Rock of Gibralter to see the Atlantic rushing back to fill the Mediterranean! Assuming, that is, that there was a "moment" when the flow really got going. I don't suppose there is any way to know how long it took.
To: SunkenCiv
20 posted on
02/13/2009 12:23:21 PM PST by
wolfcreek
(There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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