[DBrow]

If you look at Palos Verde peninsula, near Torrance, CA, about 20 miles south of LAX, you will see a series of steps on the hill (currently 1200 feet above sea level). The museums up there explain that the steps were caused by wave action when the sea level was 300, 600, 800, and 1000 feet higher than it currently is. Inland, there are hills in Redondo that are fossil sand dunes that blew up when the sea level was much lower.

At its highest, based on this fossil record, Pasadena was once the shore, and further back the beach was a mile longer.

So the sea level changes on Earth? How very surprising!

[cogitator]

So the sea level changes on Earth? How very surprising!

Very few people dispute that sea level has changed in Earth's paleohistory. The question of concern now as regards to climate change is how much it is changing and how much higher it might rise. As the storm-battered residents of Fiji and the Solomon Islands might tell us, a couple of centimeters means a lot when your island is only a couple of feet higher than the ocean.