The fact is that our earth has ice in its veins"Climate change is a defining issue of our time, especially for young people who are persuaded that we are doomed unless urgent action is taken on carbon emissions.
Activists, with some success, are demanding climate emergencies be declared around the world, making those demands on the basis that temperatures are at record highs, glaciers and sea ice are melting at unprecedented rates, and sea levels rising dangerously.
A cursory examination of the geological literature shows that the first two assertions are simply not true, and that rising sea levels are par for the course.
To assert that today’s temperatures are record highs is mischief-making of the highest order.
Earth has been much hotter (up to 10C hotter) for the vast majority of geological time.
...Sea levels were significantly higher than today just a very short time ago.
Sea levels were also significantly higher in the last interglacial 125,000 years ago; Florida Keys, for example, is the remains of a coral reef that grew then..."
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