(My original response didn't belong either, so I edited it.)
As humans did not live on Earth a few million years ago, insofar as human society is concerned, why would the fact that temperatures had previously occurred a few million years ago be even slightly inconsistent with them being apocalyptic?
No, it's evidence both for the general conclusion and that specific point, it doesn't require that point as an assumption.
Evidence is any fact whose existence makes a conclusion more likely than it would be in the absence of that fact.
In other words, the mere fact that something happened isn't evidence for a proposed (even plausible) cause. Proving the cause requires further evidence.
So, if you mean we get to enjoy living in conditions fit for apes, then you might be on to something, but I wouldn't exactly rejoice about it...