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December 19, 2019 12:23 PM ET
An ancient village off the coast of Israel used boulders to build a wall thousands of years ago to protect its homes from rising sea levels — the move was unsuccessful, according to a study published Wednesday.
The study is notable in that the settlement, called Tel Hreiz, existed before modern industry, one of the key drivers of global warming, scientists said. Researchers behind the study said the discovery of the world’s oldest sea wall shows that humans have long dealt with climate change.
“It’s the world’s oldest sea wall,” Jonathan Benjamin, a marine archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia, told reporters. “It’s the first evidence of that very real problem that we’re dealing with today.” He and his co-authors are behind the archaeological study, published on PLOS One.
Benjamin said Tel Hreiz was dealing with the aftermath of the ice age rather than man-made climate change. “They went to great lengths to protect their home,” he added. (RELATED: 2018 Saw A Global Revolt Against Climate Change Policies)
Other researchers remarked about the labor intensive nature of moving the boulders into position.
“These people understood that they had to put huge boulders down there, not little stones. They were clearly thinking ahead, that they wanted this wall to last,” Marie Jackson, a geology professor at the University of Utah, who did not work on the study.
“This is a really dynamic sea coast. Without these walls, there would have been little protection,” Jackson added. “The size and weight of those boulders are stupendous and speaks to the intent of the builders to make something, to build a wall, that had longevity and usefulness.”
Tel Hreiz was roughly 2.5 meters above sea level at the time of the wall’s construction. The Mediterranean Sea slowly came up the north coast of Israel at about 4 millimeters per year between 9,000 and 7,000 years ago, according to the researchers. Waves slowly crushed the wall, year after year, they said.
Global average sea level has risen 7 inches since 1900, or about the thickness of two pennies every year. Still, some scientists and activists say sea level rise could be devastating if warm temperatures cause the world’s glaciers and ice sheets to melt.
Former NASA head climate scientist James Hansen, for instance, warned in 1988 that New York City’s West Side Highway would be underwater within two decades. Hansen, for his part, warned in 2017 that “the planet could become practically ungovernable” from sea level rise due to melting ice forcing millions of people to flee coastal cities.
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Israel has only been around since 1948. That area was either Palestinian of Egyptian for most of recorded history.
FYI, the Jews were never in Egypt. They were in Yemen and Hijaz (Western Saudi Arabia).
Looks like a wall to create a safe harbour.
From the article: “The study is notable in that the settlement, called Tel Hreiz, existed before modern industry, one of the key drivers of global warming, scientists said.”
Well, there is no evidence that modern industry is a key driver of global warming. That’s not a very good way to start off a scientific study.
From the article: “Former NASA head climate scientist James Hansen, for instance, warned in 1988 that New York City’s West Side Highway would be underwater within two decades. Hansen, for his part, warned in 2017 that “the planet could become practically ungovernable” from sea level rise due to melting ice forcing millions of people to flee coastal cities.”
Hansen was wrong in 1988, and in 2017 (among other years). Connecting sea level rise to human-caused CO2 is one of the biggest scams in history. Along with the global temperature scam and ocean “acidification” scam, and the “arctic will be ice free soon” scam, and the weather is caused by CO2 scam.
My Aunt brought a beach cottage 50 years ago at Waihi Beach in New Zealand right on the beach.
It was built on sand and storms from the East started to wash away the front of the section as Wahi Beach faces out on to the South Pacific Ocean .
She engaged a contractor to cart in large boulders and dug a trench to bury them in the front to guard against the erosion .
Of course some do gooders reported this and the authorities duly arrived and ordered the contractor off and banned him for life from the beach.
Fortunately the large boulders were covered and have done a great job and also the dune protection society has planted and fenced off the dunes and the stabilization is well documented .
Every few years the fences ( usually a cord ) is moved towards the sea and the vegetation and sand has built up.
During large storms some debri is deposited on the front lawn but that has been happening for the last 50 years .
Our sea level expert here in NZ tells me that the true SLR is 1.5 mm per year and is not increasing and nothing to get alarmed about .
If the sea level was rising at such a low amount, year by year, How could they even know that in 2000 years it would flood their village? After all, they didn’t have any ‘climate change’ morons to tell them that, right? We are far more fortunate than that today. We DO have non or pseudo-scientists to keep us informed on those matters!
Here’s the original research paper for anyone intersted:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222560
So, the sea was rising and people tried to combat climate change. The smart choice was to relocate. It’s a bit of discomfort now but tackles the problem for good. But wait, how could the seas have been rising if there was no dastardly CO2 to make the Earth a boiling hellhole like now? Maybe because this carbon-based warming theory is nothing but dog feces in potato mash. I like mash but the dog feces will very effectively deter me from ever touching it. Climate Change is as old as Earth is. And everything that we think to observe right now has happened many, many times before without our doings. Adapt and go on – its not us.
Pile dwellings in Europe:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+documentaries+pile+dwellings+europe&oq=tv+documentaries+pile+dwellings+europe&aqs=chrome.