Worried about current sea level rise?! New Study Reveals 540 Million Years of Sea Level Change in Unprecedented Detail
By Marc Morano
July 17, 2025
12:32 pm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25003243?via%3DihubEarth and Planetary Science Letters – Volume 667, 1 October 2025, 119526
Highlights
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We present the first reconstruction of sea level change during the last 540 million years due to the waxing and waning of the Earth’s polar icecaps.
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Long-term reconstructions of sea level fail to capture short-term, high-amplitude fluctuations—especially those driven by glacio-eustasy during icehouse periods.
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The study uses a high-resolution Cenozoic climate model and long term Phanerozoic ice volumes to estimate orbital-scale sea level variability over the past 540 million years.
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Greenhouse climates like the Jurassic and Cretaceous saw reduced or absent glacial sea level fluctuations, in contrast to short term changes >100 meters during the Paleozoic and Cenozoic.
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Sea level estimates during greenhouse periods may have been overstated by stratigraphic methods, or result fro
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