There have been much higher tides. One of the sea walls near my house records several floods in the last century which would have been up to my shoulders. This all used to be marshland.
I looked up the sea-level changes in a book that was to hand - Out of Eden, by Stephen Oppenheimer. I quote "measurements made on the Greenland ice cap show that the second coldest time of the last 100,000 years was between 60,000 and 80,000 years ago. At its coldest, 70,000 years ago, this glaciation took the world's sea levels 80 metres (260 feet) below today's levels." During that time Europe has been joined to and separated from Britain several times by the rising and falling waters of the North Sea. It is their present misfortune to live in an interglacial. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of graywolf > Sent: 30 September 2007 17:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: High Tide > > Must be global warming. > > BTW, I recently came across a reference that claimed the rise > in sea level from > the ice age was in the order of 300-400 feet. > > > Bob W wrote: > >>> We had an unusually high tide on the Thames today. I took > >> some photos > >>> with my mobile phone: > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
