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We'll know on Friday.

And it is even more than that. As I have frequently mentioned, Miami is built upon limestone. The uppermost layer is approximately 15 meters thick and known as the Miami Limestone. That layer was deposited during the Sangamon Interglacial. That is the last interglacial, and the one between...

In the last 14 million years, no. Once again, because that is when the strait that used to exist between North and South America started getting constricted. Warm water flowing between the Atlantic and Pacific decreased, and things started to cool off. Until that flow was stopped, and we...

This is part of the debate we have been having. Some geologists are now starting to believe they actually move because of the subduction, not the spreading. That the subducting edge of the plate pulls the rest of it along, like pulling on one end of a towel and the rest follows. And that the...

As do I. I have witnessed the uplift in my lifetime, with areas being raised in elevation compared to five decades ago. I have first hand seen piers that once had a wharf that serviced fishing boats now abandoned because the water is too shallow to support such boats. I have also seen what...

That is not being "pushed", the boundary between the JdF plate and the Pacific Plate is also a spreading zone. That plate is actually moving east-northeast, but that is primarily due to the spreading and not actually pressure from the Pacific Plate. And is believed to be the cause of the...

Uh, not quite. Very little subduction is happening under Alaska. The plate is actually moving west-northwest and most is subducting under Asia. And I know hotspots are very different. However, even into the 1980s most did not believe Yellowstone was an active hotspot. That idea did not...

That's right. Global Warming has not been linked to the Industrial Age.

Among with many other incorrect ideas, this is just one of many. The Pacific Plate is not being subducted, that is why the San Andreas exists as a strike-slip fault. And why there are no active volcanoes east of roughly the San Francisco Bay area. No, what was there before was the Farallon...

Well, they either migrate somewhere else, or they learn how to breathe underwater. Where did the people go that used to live on Doggerland? The Indians that lived in the wide river valley where the San Francisco Bay is today? Once again, not the first time this has happened.

The planet has always gone through climate change. Who exactly is saying that the climate is not changing?

That of course was my being figurative. But as the Indian Plate moves in a northward direction, that provides the place ultimately for the Antarctic Plate to move in that direction. There are a great many plates, and there is still much discussion as to what actually makes them move. For...

-looks up- This is not a political area of the forum. Got it, you could not care less about science and only care about politics and pointing fingers. Have a nice day.

Are you here to actually discuss science? Or are you only here to attack others for some strange reason that has not a damned thing to do with the topic itself?

Yes, and? My trying to "confront" the EPA would be a useless and pointless as my tying to "confront" the VA.