BBC News - Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age?

BBC News - Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age?

My thought on this is that the concerns of flooding are overblown. As the article indicated they are predicting less than a meter rise in the sea level over the next century. Granted, the cumulative effect of global warming over the next few hundred years is likely to cause the sea level to rise by several meters, but even if this were not the case, we would still have to rebuild just about everything over that period of time.

The idea that people will be caught by surprise when waters rise over a period of hundreds of years seems a little far fetched.  I believe that there was one scientist who said that it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things how rapidly we burn up the fossil fuels.  The effect on the earth will be the same.  This seams plausible.  However, rapid changes in temperature might put many organisms at risk.  On the other hand, it might not.  I suspect that smaller organisms will be better able to adapt.  Although humans are likely to thrive as well.  If we are concerned about biodiversity, which I think we should be, then we will have to have ideas about how rapidly new species are formed, and how a rise in temperature is likely to effect the generation of new species as well as the extinction of old ones.