Sunday, November 25, 2012

Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines - NYTimes.com

Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines - NYTimes.com:

"THE oceans have risen and fallen throughout Earth’s history, following the planet’s natural temperature cycles. Twenty thousand years ago, what is now New York City was at the edge of a giant ice sheet, and the sea was roughly 400 feet lower. But as the last ice age thawed, the sea rose to where it is today."

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