The rising tides of the past before fossil fuels

 Back in the 1060’s the geology class I was in at the University of Texas went out to examine sea fossils found in the limestone cliffs around Austin Texas.  While there is not much in the way of oil drilling in Austin it is clear that in the ancient past the land was underwater even though it is over a hundred miles away from the current Gulf of Mexico.

Obviously when that happened it was not because ancient Americans were burning fossil fuels.  The earth appears to be constantly changing in response to its own cycles and not those of humans.  The ancient cities found underneath the sea between Africa and Europe were also there long before humans were using fossil fuels for transportation and industry.

In the last 50 years there have been many predictions of rising tides because of man’s use of fossil fuels was supposedly melting the poles.  All of those predictions have failed to be realized even thou those making them usually said it would happen in a 10 year time frame if we did not stop suing fossil fuels.

Yet here we are with the poles still not ice-free and coastal cities still not underwater.