An ancient story from southern India is that when the king stopped making sacrifices to the rain god Indra, the sea level rose to consume the land of Kumari Kandam, part of which is where today are the submerged ruins off Mahabalipuram, so why did the sea level rise when the rainfall decreased? It’s because the ocean was warmer (in the aftermath of Noah’s Flood) to have been the engine for the Ice Age, more evaporation off the ocean for more cloud cover, but when the ocean had cooled to about today’s temperatures, the rainfall decreased, fewer clouds.
