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Since the Last Glacial Maximum >20k years ago, the trend has been a warming one, and this predates our oil based economy, and the rise of largescale human population.

We are likely heading to reversion to the mean around temperature, water levels, CO2, and others

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This is simply not true. There is absolutely nothing about current climate change that can be explained as merely continued epoch-scale changes. There has been a very sharp and very pronounced hook in the temperature curve over the last few decades (and a bleedingly obvious hypothesis as to why) that matches almost nothing in the geological record (supervolcano eruptions and global-scale impacts are the only things that happen on this kind of time scale, not ice ages!).

There is absolutely zero scientific basis behind the idea you're positing here. Please stop.

Global recession of glaciers is not a localized phenom.

Nor is oceanic rise. Just look at Doggerland!

Sea levels were what, 300-400 feet below now during the Younger Dryas?

> There is absolutely zero scientific basis behind the idea you're positing here. Please stop.

Poppycock.

There is plenty of evidence of oceanic increase and decrease as a part of longterm global trends around freezing and warming cycles.

That's totally incorrect. The current warming is unequivocally due to release of CO2 into the atmosphere. It's really simple physics.

The physicists in Doggerland all agreed with you.

Nope, no widespread climate trend around oceanic rise. Doesn't exist. A fabrication.

The problem is the speed. See https://xkcd.com/1732/

Of course, there was a very fast freeze during the Younger Dryas.

Hence why you provide a graphic that selectively cut it out.

10º C in just a few decades

Checkmate!

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