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Originally Posted by Thymeclock
Says who, Neil? You?
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Yeah, you caught me -- I'm making it up. Not.
There is a mountain in Ecuador called
Mount Chimborazo that is closer to space than Mount Everest.
There is about 70% of the Earth's fresh water on Antarctica. It is so massive and so heavy, it is pressing the land underneath it down a lot. (Greenland has about 20% of all freshwater, and is also pressed down quite a bit.) The gravitational pull of the ice is changing the shape of the Earth, in as much as it affects sea level. The spin of the Earth already raises the sea level at the equator a fair bit, and the "extra" gravity of the Antarctic ice also affects the
sea level.
And yes, alligators used to live in what we now call Alaska. James Hansen is not wrong. Plate tectonics was just confirmed in the 1960's. DNA is another late breaking science. David Attenborough mentions both these in his video called "
" -- in the 1940's if you had mentioned these, you got a lot of skepticism. Pangaea has a LOT to do with understanding global climate change -- and they didn't even know that the continents moved at all until the 1960's.
Many fields of science overlap, and discoveries in one field affect many others. Evolution and DNA has a huge effect almost across the board, as does plate tectonics; and these are both recent developments. Anthropogenic climate change was first proposed *before* plate tectonics and before DNA, and it overlaps with virtually all other fields of science.
Here's what David Attenborough says about anthropogenic global climate change:
If you choose not to believe the scientists about what the facts are, then that is up to you. If you selectively ignore them, like Pat Michaels, then you are lying to yourself.