re: Real climate cataclysm: Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales (Netflix)

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So drastic sea level changes happened in short amounts of time prior to the industrial age? Wouldn't this imply that it's not something that is caused by humans burning fossil fuels?

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not really - during the ice age, several hundred feet of sea-level water was locked up in the ice caps - that water was released to go back to the oceans in a fairly short time as the glaciers melted.

HOWEVER - there are many instances of warmer weather than now experienced well before any mammals, let alone humans - especially any form of industrialization, ever existed.

The major driver of global weather is solar activity and the variation in orbits of the earth and moon, as well as the cyclic tilt of their rotational axes. There is a cycle with a name that describes if fairly well - something like a 20,000 year cycle.