Barrier Reef

[Deleted member 63160]

Just watching old David Attenborough in the Barrier reef. He just explained how the whole reef, which has an area greater than GB and Ireland, used to be inhabited dry land about 14 thousand years ago. Then, due to climate change, in less than a lifetime the sea levels rose so much it ended up under water. 35 meters of water on average. That's a sea level rise of about 50 cm or 500mm per year! Since 1870 till 2004 it's risen less than 2mm anually I think.
So seeing as climate change is due to fossil fuels etc etc wtf caused sea levels to rise 250 times more per year, for 70 years, 12,000 years ago?
I must have misread the numbers??

 

[joe-90]

Usually volcanic eruptions.

 

[Bosswhite]

Just watching old David Attenborough in the Barrier reef. He just explained how the whole reef, which has an area greater than GB and Ireland, used to be inhabited dry land about 14 thousand years ago. Then, due to climate change, in less than a lifetime the sea levels rose so much it ended up under water. 35 meters of water on average. That's a sea level rise of about 50 cm or 500mm per year! Since 1870 till 2004 it's risen less than 2mm anually I think.
So seeing as climate change is due to fossil fuels etc etc wtf caused sea levels to rise 250 times more per year, for 70 years, 12,000 years ago?
I must have misread the numbers??

Evolvement of the World, whatever mankind does the world carries on, we believe as mankind we are altering the way the world works, but it has been changing ever since the World began !

But then a lot of business`s rely on the fact that there is manmade climate change .

 

[Deleted member 63160]

I must admit, it was strange seeing this on the beeb who constantly blame mankind for what is essentially fook all compared to events like this. Imagine if this had happened recently..."oh yes definitely man made".

 

[Deleted member 63160]

Just looked at info on the great lakes. 14000 years ago virtually all covered in ice. 4000 years ago all the ice gone. Apparently we are coming out of an ice age and this was all down to global warming. I'd like to know whose patio heaters were responsible.

 

[joe-90]

The earth has a wobble. These causes are all known. The cause for today's climate change isn't down to the usual culprits.

 

[Ihavenojob]

It was all those alien spaceships landing & taking off, technology to travel light years but too selfish to fit a catalytic converter.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Isn't it now espoused that it would be a dreadful catastrophe if the reef disappeared?

 

[terrypin]

I was right all along, no need to get rid of my Cheshire tractor(apart from it being Shiite).

 

[nauseous]

Is the sea level rising or are we just sinking?

 

[Deleted member 63160]

It would be a financial disaster for Aus. The earth managed for 4 and 1/2 billion years without it though.

 

[joe-90]

Australia is just a Chinese quarry.

 

[Bosswhite]

Antarctic Sea Ice is Growing, Arctic Sea Ice is getting smaller ,

Swings and roundabouts

 

[noseall]

Is the sea level rising or are we just sinking?

Dissolving. All this blooming rain.

 

[Deleted member 63160]

Roughly speaking from when man started burning fossil fuel is about .00000035% of the age of the earth. I can't imagine any other scientific thesis being based, for example, on only the last 2 seconds of a 4 week event.