Author: Ed Leafe
Posted: 2007-12-12 at 17:17:01
On Dec 12, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> It has been getting warmer for several thousand years! About
>> 10,000 years
>> ago you could walk from England to France and Germany because of
>> all the
>> water locked up in the ice caps. Five hundred years ago you could
>> roast an
>> ox on the frozen River Thames in Winter. Thirty thousand years
>> ago lions
>> and hippos roamed England.
>
> And just over 25 years ago the Arctic ice cap was larger by the
> size of
> about half the contiguous US states.
The earth's tectonic plates are also moving continuously, and have
been for some time. It's when they move *suddenly* that you need to
worry.
-- Ed Leafe