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Topic: Earth's Climate and Geological History
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Sven
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posted 30 September 2007 06:58 PM
In the "Future Animation", it looks like, for a time (for many million years?) most of North America in the future will be nearly completely covered by ocean water.That reminds me... My sister lives on a farm in northwestern Iowa. In a rock outcropping on their land, her kids find fossilized sharks teeth all of the time. It's weird to think that sharks swam above modern-day Iowa millions of years ago. When I see shit like that (and look at that animation from the website you linked to), I kinda wonder if a 5-foot rise in the sea level over the next hundred years or so (due to global warming) would result in any long term effect (at least any long term effect with any meaning), given the dramatic changes the earth has gone through, and will go through, any way, with or without humans. Those immense (incomprehensible, really) changes that the earth will experience seem to make human-caused changes (and humans, for that matter) insignificant. [Cogitating...]
From: Eleutherophobics of the World...Unite!!!!! | Registered: Jul 2005
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It even shows possible future continental-drift projections. 
