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And the opposite happens. Land adjacent to the edges of ice sheets during the glacial period rose up, back then - sort of like pushing on an air mattress and having it bulge somewhere else. This land is still going back down, since the ice sheets left.

A good overview of Milankovitch cycles is here. Milankovitch Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/mila ... s-climate/ --------- As to the frequent claim by deniers that CO2 increases follow warming, rather than cause it, the study by Shakun et...

I think the real point is that subsidizing emerging industries, that are very much needed, makes sense. Subsiding completely dominant, profitable, mature, incumbent industries like oil and coal makes ZERO sense. Oil has been subsidized nonstop in the U.S. since 1918 and Coal since 1932.

"The average share of electricity generated from coal in the US has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 27.4% in 2018> Coal power in the United States accounted for 39% of the country's electricity production at utility-scale facilities in 2014, 33% in 2015, 30.4% in 2016 and 27.4% in 2018 Wikipedia

In the U.S., oil has been subsidized non-stop since 1918, coal since 1932 And there are numerous ways the government assists and facilitates fossil fuels, including 10s of $Billions per year in military protection. And that doesn't include the $6 Trillion or so spent on 3 wars in the MidEast...