CellBioGuy comments on Open thread, Nov. 02 - Nov. 08, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 08 November 2015 09:29:34AM *  1 point [-]

Yep! My favorite bit of what went on during the end of the last glaciation is the way that it happened unevenly, a sedate constant flow of water from ice to the oceans interrupted by centuries here and there where sea level rose by at least 2-5 centimeters a year. Presumably that's what happens once an ice sheet becomes unstable and pieces of them collapse quickly and nonlinearly.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 November 2015 04:19:35PM 1 point [-]

That was one of those "interesting times to live in"? Still it's peanuts compared to the mother of all floods :-)