Climate change has influenced rising seas and land loss throughout the past 2000 years. This is not a new phenomena as many would like us to believe. During the Roman Warm Period (around the 1st–3rd centuries CE), warming contributed to coastal submergence, with sites such as the Roman port of Baiae in Italy now underwater. In the Medieval Climate Anomaly (12th–13th centuries), rising seas and storms eroded coastlines in northern Europe, swallowing towns like Dunwich in England after major storms in 1286 and 1328, and transforming farmland into the Zuiderzee following floods in 1170 and 1219 in the Netherlands. The Little Ice Age brought colder conditions, but extreme events like the catastrophic storm surge of 1362, known as the Grote Mandrenke, erased coastal communities in Germany and Denmark. With the onset of industrial-era warming from the 19th century onward, sea levels have risen more rapidly, causing the disappearance of places like Holland Island in Chesapeake Bay (the last house fell in 2010), the loss of entire islands in the Sundarbans by the 1980s, and ongoing erosion in low-lying Pacific nations such as Kiribati and Tuvalu. Together, these examples show that climate change has been an ongoing driver of rising seas and land loss over the past two millennia, with the pace and scale of impacts accelerating in modern times.