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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Also fair enough. But there is a huge difference between a puddle in a city street and being under 400 feet of water. But then again, no one knows for certain what the "expected" sea rise will be. I suspect it is different in each of the dozen or more freeze/thaw cycles we've had over the last 4.5 million years.
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Likewise, aren't those that dismiss the last 4.5 million years of paleoclimatology the true deniers????? Or, as that Joyce Bay whatever idiot on "The View" would say----"da--nye-ah"
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Dismissing the last 4.5M years as irrelevant is not denying that the climate, the geology, and many other things were different then. That was then, this is now. Things were different then, we are living now. What happened then did happen and presents a baseline to identify the deviation resulting from manmade causes.
Perhaps in 4.5M years the oceans will dry up - I will not be here to see it. Perhaps in 1M years my house would be under 400 feet of water without manmade climate change but again, I will not be here to see it. My concern is for the next 100 years.
To be clear, I could not care less about 400 feet of water over my house; the things that I care about are much, much smaller. I care about the water that comes up through the street drains at normal high tides. I worry more about the water that is now standing in the streets at the drains at low tides. I worry about the inches of water the homeowners in Shore Acres in St Petersburg drive though on a regular basis.
I could not care less about 400 feet above my house some million years in the future, I worry about the possibility of one inch of water driving people out of their homes in the next few decades.