[little jeremiah]

Of course, the fluctuating temperatures of the Sun have nothing to do with it.

I think it's amazing that so many scientist, looking at a teeny speck of time through what amounts to a flickering penlight, think they know everything and can make pronouncements that we're supposed to accept as holy truth.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If this farticle is true, why the hell are we going to spend 240 billion bucks rebuilding New Orleans? It doesn't make any sense to me.

[Ole Okie]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!

Someday.

[SunkenCiv]

an old topic, 2005. I was going to post it under a different title (NSF source), luckily Google turned up this one. There was no "greenhouse world" condition. And if the ocean levels fell, and the ice sheets were "ephemeral", they would still have to have been massive, and formed so quickly there isn't a uniformitarian explanation.

Ice Sheets Caused Massive Sea Level
Change During Late Cretaceous
(Period was previously
thought to be ice-free)
National Science Foundation
February 27, 2004
Last Updated: December 8, 2004

Led by Kenneth Miller of Rutgers University, the scientists examined cores from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 174AX, an onshore extension of an offshore expedition. They found indications that sea level changes were large (more than 25 meters) and rapid (occurring on scales ranging from thousands to less than a million years) during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world (99- 65 million years ago)... Analyses indicate minimal tectonic effects on the New Jersey Coastal Plain at this time, the scientists say. The other explanation for such large, rapid changes is the waxing and waning of large continental ice sheets, they maintain. What is perplexing, however, is that such large and rapid sea-level changes occurred during an interval thought to be ice free... The scientists propose that the ice sheets were restricted in area to Antarctica and were ephemeral. The ice sheets would not have reached the Antarctic coast, explaining the relative warmth in Antarctica, but still could significantly alter global sea level.

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[dirtboy]

The findings establish a steady millimeter-per-year rise from 5,000 years ago until about 200 years ago.

I smell pure unadulterated BS with this claim, given the marked periods of warming and cooling that happened during that time period.

[Gator113]

I am one that likes to look for the silver lining in every cloud.

So, as I see this..... the oceans growing will bring the bigger fish in closer. This results in me saving a ton of money on fuel in trying to find the big guys.

Nope, no problem here. Well, it could be tough for the clam hunters, but I buy those at Costco anyway.