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Plate tectonics will have more of an effect on coastal areas than glacial melt.

At one time almost all of Florida was under water. Millions of years of coral and other sealife died and deposited matter that created the limestone. Other geologic events caused that Florida land mass to apparently rise above the sea level. It could have been due to the weight of the receding glaciers. It could have been movement of the magma well below the Earth's crust.

There are mountains in Italy that are made of white marble high above sea level by hundreds and thousands of feet. Marble is produced when limestone is subjected to pressure and heat. Plate tectonics had something to do with creating those marble mountains; that's where Cararra is mined.

We humans cannot conceive of the time-frames it takes for all these changes to the Earth.

Man caused? Pollution, yes. Sea level rise and fall? Less so.

But yes, the climate is changing, but many, many factors contribute to this.

We'll do much better when we all have a better understanding of geology rather than politics.