Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
^^ Very interesting post JL. I'll be interested to see the case for the opposition also.

The seperation of 'rising sea levels' from the overall global warming/ greenhouse gas argument is an angle I had not been previously aware of.
Sabang, sea levels have been rising for thousands of years. At one time, man could litterly walk across the Bering straits. The sea level was so low, that the Black Sea was not there. It used to be a large lake, where it is now believed that agriculture and civilization originated. As the sea rose, it crossed the Bosperous and flooded the basin, causing the largest forced dispersion of humans in history. That is where the tale of the Gread Flood originated.

Almost all of cave art has been destroyed by rising sea levels, and all the coastal archaeological sites are under water. As an anthropologist I keep up with this, and am happy that undersea archaeology is finally beginning to take off.

But the simple truth is that almost all the sea rise has already occurred, because the ice shelves have melted as the latest stage of the Pleistocene came to an end. And the worst thing is that we are soon due to start entering the next round of ice age in the near future, and that is something we DON'T want to happen.

A warm planet is good for humans, and a cold one is bad. It's that simple. Man originated out of Africa, where it was warm. Does that tell you something? All this hyperventilating about how Global Warming is destructive and our fault is almost complete balloney. IT'S THE SUN that's causing all this warmth.