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Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels

An anonymous reader writes "As temperatures rise, scientists continue to worry about the effects of melting Antarctic ice, which threatens to raise sea levels and swamp coastal communities. This event, though, isn't unprecedented. Researchers have uncovered evidence that reveals global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's ice sheets to melt, causing sea levels to rise by about 20 meters."

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  1. Re:More to the point... by UnknowingFool · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Um no. A few years ago global warming opponents got a hold of their private emails and selectively released excerpts that made the process of analyzing data more nefarious than it actually was. It would be like white supremacists editing Martin Luther King to have said: "I have a dream that my . . . children will . . . be judged by the color of their skin . . ." Please read on how eight separate investigations failed to find any wrongdoing. Also read how it was at best a handful of scientists not the thousands of scientists doing research.

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