If these scientists are correct the “man-made” contribution to climate change is minuscule compared to the completely natural events that will cause massive sea level increases. Money and technology invested in reducing the human impact on climate change should be redirected to dealing with the consequences of such change. Zealots, it’s going to happen. But don’t let facts interfere with your religion.

One of the key things the forest might hint at is a world where the seas rose even more quickly than the worst-case predictions for the near future.

More than half the state of Alabama at one time was submerged underneath an ancestral ocean …

Places we live are going to be flooded, just as the underwater forest was. It may happen in five years, it may happen in 10, it may not happen in my lifetime, but it is going to happen.

Source: Alabama’s 60,000-year-old underwater forest spills its secrets in new documentary | AL.com