Doug, if you are any kind of fan of Howard, Tolkien, and Vance, then you might enjoy reading <a href="http://www.nextnature.net/2009/04/mapping-a-lost-world/" rel="nofollow">the history of Doggerland</i> … a vast, once-rich land to the north and east of England, that now lies drowned beneath the waves of the North Sea.
Supposing that we humans cling to our present carbon-burning global energy economy, then a few centuries from now, will the Gulf States be America's own irretrievably drowned Doggerland?
To increasingly many climatologists and archaeologists, a planet Earth having drowned Doggerlands on every continent appears to be not outside the realm of physical possibility.
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