Professor Ian Plimer
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In Scandinavia, it was once covered by five kilometres of ice.
That pushed down the rock.
That ice is gone.
Scandinavia is rising.
We've got old survey records going back centuries.
We've got old beaches in Norway that are 340 metres above sea level.
So we know the land goes up and down.
It goes to the biblical town of Ephesus.
That was a port.
It's inland and above sea level.
A little bit further south, you go to Lydia.
That's where gold coins were first made and first minted.
I've been to Lydia down the main street in a yacht.
So the land level's going up and down all the time, and we humans have adjusted to that.
Adapt.
We've always done it, and there's never been a problem.
We do know that when it's colder, you have more wars, you have more disease, and you have more people die.
We have people have a decreased longevity in cold periods of time.
So we've always known this, and when we look at deaths...
There's been a survey done, a medical survey, 34 million deaths related to climate, and more than 90% of people, if they have a climate-related death, is due to the cold, not the warm.