An Ominous Warning

The business tycoon Richard Branson described seeing the cave as “One of the starkest reminders of the danger of climate change that he had ever seen.” The scientists concluded that this sinkhole was the fallout of a massive ice melt due to climate change at the end of the last Ice Age era. A vast swathe of land was swamped due to the dramatic rise in the Caribbean Sea water levels. Branson noticed an obvious shift in the color and formation between the rocks above the surface and the rocks underwater. Were the conditions a sign of warning for a future calamity?