Now what clearer evidence could be presented...
that standup paddleboards cause excessively high water levels?
Signed, Dr. Science
Not the climate issue....the beach! Clearly it has settled a foot and a half or more.Tioloco - 10-10-2026 at 03:11 PM
The palm trees are doomed, ladies and gentlemen.
According to AI:
Yes, the ground where Flagstaff now sits was covered by oceans in deep geologic history, though the sea level itself didn't rise that high—instead,
the land was pushed up thousands of feet later on.
Why Flagstaff Has Marine Rocks
• Ancient Seafloors: Much of the bedrock underlying Flagstaff and the surrounding Colorado Plateau is made of sedimentary layers (like limestones
and sandstones) that formed at the bottom of shallow, warm tropical seas hundreds of millions of years ago (during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras).
• Tectonic Uplift: The global sea level has never actually been 7,000 feet higher than it is today. Instead, tectonic forces (the Laramide Orogeny
and the general uplift of the Colorado Plateau) lifted those ancient ocean-floor sediments straight up into the high-altitude mountain country you see
today.
• Elevation Context: Flagstaff sits at an official elevation of 6,909 feet (2,106 meters) above sea level, while the highest global sea levels in
Earth's deep history were only ever a couple of hundred meters higher or lower than modern levels, not thousands of feet higher.
Should I put my cabin up for sale? Al Gore's posse has me very worried....
