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"During the last ice age, sea levels would have been 200 to 300 feet lower than they are now. Many of the human settlements of the time would have been in low-lying areas —because it is warmer lower down, it is easier to grow crops in river valleys than on the sides of mountains, and early trade would have led to settlement around river mouths and along coastlines. When the ice age ended, these early settlements would have been buried beneath rising sea levels, and their occupants forced to move to much higher ground." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "During an ice age, more water is frozen in the polar ice caps, and sea levels are much lower. During the last ice age, sea levels would have been 200 to 300 feet lower than they are now. Many of the human settlements of the time would have been in low-lying areas —because it is warmer lower down, it is easier to grow crops in river valleys than on the sides of mountains, and early trade would have led to settlement around river mouths and along coastlines." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Most of us have heard how global warming could lead to a melting of the polar ice caps and a consequent rise in sea levels, leading to the flooding of lowland areas such as Bangladesh, the Netherlands, and many of the world's coastal cities, with all its ensuing problems and enormous costs. But there are other possible consequences of even greater concern. Vegetation would not be able to "migrate" as fast as the changes in climate occur; many temperate forests would vanish, adding further to climatic instability. Areas that we rely upon for much of our food, such as the grain prairies of the U." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"At the same time, with the trades no longer pushing water westward, sea levels off the Americas rise by several centimeters. Kelvin waves cause the same effect in the Pacific that you obtain by moving around in a bathtub. Satellite data show that a single Kelvin wave takes about ten weeks to travel across the Pacific basin-one-third of the earth's circumference, which works out to an average speed of about seven to eight kilometers an hour. When the northeast trades blow, the warm ocean heats the overlying atmosphere in the western Pacific." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "With the stabilization of sea levels in about 3000 B.C., humanity everywhere entered into a new and infinitely more vulnerable relationship with the environment. The seesaws of post-Ice Age global warming had turned foragers into farmers and villagers into city dwellers, putting them all at the mercy of much shorter cycles of climate change. El Nino and other such short-term climatic episodes assumed a new and menacing importance. By 3000 B.C., the world was on a trajectory of accelerating population growth that has not eased to this day." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"When the ice age ended, these early settlements would have been buried beneath rising sea levels, and their occupants forced to move to much higher ground. Could this be the source of the myth of the Great Flood, which is found in so many cultures? Could this be what happened to the fabled Atlantis and Lemuria? If so, we should be looking for these lost civilizations 300 feet under the sea, out on the edges of the continental shelves. As if this were not enough, shortsighted intensive agricultural practices turn soil into sterile dust, to be washed or blown away." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"For six thousand yeats, ever since the land bridge connecting Britain with continental Europe disappeared under rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age, the island had been traveling a somewhat independent path. Though it experienced successive waves of migration from the continent, and traded in high-value objects like amber and precious metals, Britain was relatively detached from the Mediterranean world until Julius Caesar began its conquest in 54 B.C.E. Two centuries later, Roman domination was complete, with three legions?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Deep ice cores from Andean glaciers tell us that this seasonal pattern has remained constant since rising post-Ice Age sea levels stabilized around 5000 B.C., and perhaps since the end of the Ice Age ten thousand years earlier. This same rainfall pattern occurs throughout the fifteen degrees of tropical latitude straddled by the Peruvian mountains until the drier high-altitude altiplano grasslands around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and Bolivia. The seasonal rhythm is remarkably consistent, except in El Nino years." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Coastal areas are flooded by rising sea levels. • Famine spreads in areas dependent on adequate rainfall for food production and areas exposed to tornados, hurricanes, and violent storms. • Massive waves of migrants from the worst-hit areas seek areas where resources are more assured. The breakdown of the poorest and most directly exposed regions creates a global security threat: • Epidemics of infectious diseases spread over Africa, Asia, and the Americas owing to heat waves, outbreaks of agricultural pests, and contaminated drinking water." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body made up of the world's leading climatologists and other scientists, the predicted level of warming—up to 10°F by the end of this century—will bring on a disaster of biblical proportions: a rise of sea levels by nearly 3 feet; unendurable heat in many parts of the world; a vast increase of vector-borne diseases; raging floods and storms. A change upward of ten degrees may not seem like much until one realizes that lowering it by the same amount would bring on another ice age." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"According to the IPCC, sea levels rose by ten to twenty centimeters during the twentieth century, and are currently rising by about two millimeters a year, which is at the upper range of the rate of rise for the last century. With global warming accelerating, this is apt to increase. The generally accepted prediction is that sea levels will rise during the twenty-first century by about fifty centimeters, or a little under two feet, though some scientists predict a full meter. Roughly one-sixth of the people in the world live in coastal zones within one meter of sea level." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"It has even been suggested that a thicker Greenland ice sheet could offset rising sea levels. But real-world evidence runs counter to these optimistic scenarios, suggesting that James Hansen may be right after all. The models on which the predictions of Greenland ice melt are based operate by estimating the difference between water loss from future melting and ice accumulation from future snowfall. There is much more to ice sheet dynamics than just melting and snowfall, however." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"As glacial ice melts, sea levels rise, and as wintertime sea extent decreases, ocean waves increase in intensity, damaging coastal cities. Additional hundreds of millions of people would be put at risk from flooding around the globe. It would make the December 26, 2003, Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and August 29, 2005, flooding of New Orleans appear inconsequential. Whole islands like Tuvalu in the South Pacific would succumb to the rising tide. Nations seek nuclear power as a hedge against fossil fuels, and nuclear weapons proliferate." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"His collection of documentary images, World View of Global Warming (presented online, in traveling gallery exhibitions, and at universities around the world), offers a potent record of changes in sea levels, glaciers, and ice fields; of transformations in plant and animal species; and of extreme and unstable weather—and of people's efforts to adjust their lives and homes to these changes. The images will appear with commentary in the forthcoming book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press)." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Fingerprints include heat waves, ocean warming and rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and changes in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harbingers include such phenomena as reports of early nesting (reported in twenty out of sixty-five bird species studied in England), coral-reef bleaching, and the massive drought that struck the Korean Peninsula in 2001." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "With a two-foot increase in sea levels and a commensurate rise in the intensity and frequency of storm surges, coastal flooding would heighten property damage, and demand for emergency services could cost $94 billion over the course of the century. The team evaluated three adaptive strategies that Boston could use to cope with costs and impacts of this magnitude." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "On the coast, sea levels could rise by as much as a yard by the end of the century—an estimate that does not take the accelerated melt of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets into account. The economists noted some big changes: Dwindling midsummer streamflows east of the Cascades would disadvantage farmers, communities, and native fish. Ski-area operators might find themselves forced to choose between spending on snowmaking equipment and on chairlifts." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In the process, now being repeated in glaciers right around the ice cap, billions of tonnes more ice are dumped in the North Atlantic, raising sea levels still further. According to Howat, the thinning has reached a 'critical point' which has begun 'drastically changing the glacier's dynamics'. His conclusion is devastating: 'If other glaciers in Greenland are responding like Helheim, it could easily cut in half the time it will take to destroy the Greenland ice sheet.' Other scientists concur." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "The formation sparked the scientists' interest because if they could date the coral accurately, its height above sea level today would help them solve a mystery about how sea levels had changed in the past. Tropical coral reefs form in shallow seas, so if old coral is now above sea level, only two explanations are possible: the land has risen, or the sea level has fallen." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Glaciologists had long suspected that it might be sensitive to small changes in temperature, and in total it contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 5 metres. Indeed, as early as 1978 a paper in Nature warned that the ice sheet posed 'a threat of disaster' - a warning which is even more pressing today, as chapter 4 reveals. But attempts to model ice sheet collapse had proven inconclusive, and in 2000 an entirely different contributor to sea level rise was proposed: Greenland." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Siberia and North America are e continents. Britain is an island. trunks tell a different story-of constant and dramatic swings in global climate over the past 730,000 years. Our remote ancestors lived through wild fluctuations from intense glacial cold to much shorter warm interglacials that sometimes brought tropical conditions to Europe and parts of North America." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In just a decade or so, average yearly temperatures plunged nearly thirty degrees. sea levels dropped by hundreds of feet as water froze and stayed in the ice caps. Forests and grasslands went into a steep decline. Coastlines were surrounded by hundreds of miles of ice. Icebergs were common as far south as Spain and Portugal. The great, mountainous glaciers marched south again. The Younger Dryas had arrived, and the world was changed. Though humanity would survive, the short-term impact, especially for those populations that had moved north, was devastating." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Among the more melodramatic negative advertisements for what's coming is the news that sea levels are rising and are likely to rise a lot more in this century. Places such as Bangladesh, the Netherlands, much of Florida, the Chesapeake Bay lowlands, New Orleans, and scores of Pacific islands could vanish underwater in the coming century. Harbor towns all over the world could be damaged or submerged. The worldwide ice meltdown is impressive. The Arctic has been warming dramatically and virtually all glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets are melting. Sea ice is also retreating and thinning." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The generally accepted prediction is that sea levels will rise during the twenty-first century by about fifty centimeters, or a little under two feet, though some scientists predict a full meter. Roughly one-sixth of the people in the world live in coastal zones within one meter of sea level. This is the kind of outside context problem so alien to contemporary experience that the public and its leaders can really find no way to process the information and figure out what to do about it—and for the excellent reason that it is not a problem with a direct solution." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The solar energy stored for millions of years in oil will now be expressed in higher temperatures, more severe storms, rising sea levels, and harsher conditions for the human species, which, despite its exosomatic technological achievements, remains a part of nature and subject to its laws. Finance, or Abstracted Economy Money is a wonderful thing. It started out in human history as hard currency, generally gold or silver. These are commodities that are deemed to have intrinsic value but also act as a means of abstractly representing wealth accumulated out of other real commodities." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"If all of that ice melted, sea levels would probably rise considerably, perhaps even the couple of hundred feet it would take to put the Statue of Liberty in peril. Since most of the world's ice is located in Antarctica, most of the concern about rising sea levels caused by melting ice has been focused on that continent. And although research has given us some rather surprising insights into the nature of large bodies of ice, it has also touched off an ongoing scientific debate on the question of how much, if any, of the Antarctic ice sheet is likely to melt anytime soon." - James Trefil, 101 Things You Don't Know About Science And No One Else Does Either (Get the book.)

"Such a 'land-bridge', as geologists refer to it, did once exist (where the Bering Strait is now) but was submerged beneath the waves by rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age.24 The rising sea levels were caused by the tumultuous melting of the ice-cap which was rapidly retreating everywhere in the northern hemisphere by around 10,000 bc.25 It is therefore interesting that at least one ancient map appears to show southern Sweden covered with remnant glaciers of the kind that must indeed have been prevalent then in these latitudes." - Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (Get the book.) "Or was the relevant source map drawn deep in the last Ice Age, when sea levels were far lower than they are today and a large island could indeed have been exposed at this spot? Sea levels and ice ages Other sixteenth-century maps also look as though they could have been based on accurate world surveys conducted during the last Ice Age. One was compiled by the Turk Hadji Ahmed in 1559, a cartographer, as Hapgood puts it, who must have had access to some 'most extraordinary' source maps." - Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (Get the book.)

"During the Ice Ages, so much of the oceans' water was locked up in glaciers that worldwide sea levels dropped hundreds of feet below their present stand. As a result, what are now the shallow seas between Asia and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali became dry land. (So did other shallow straits, such as the Bering Strait and the English Channel.) The edge of the Southeast Asian mainland then lay 700 miles east of its present location. Nevertheless, central Indonesian islands between Bali and Australia remained surrounded and separated by deep-water channels." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "On at least three smaller islands (Flinders, Kangaroo, and King) that were isolated from Australia or Tasmania by rising sea levels around 10,000 years ago, human populations that would initially have numbered around 200 to 400 died out completely. Tasmania and those three smaller islands thus illustrate in extreme form a conclusion of broad potential significance for world history. Human populations of only a few hundred people were unable to survive indefinitely in complete isolation." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

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