Do I criticize their desire for ocean views? Not at all. I would like to live on the beach or at least with an ocean view. But it suggests that they are not worried about whether their kids will have road access to the property (for Gore) or flooding in the front door (for Obama).
But are the oceans rising? Complicating the problem is that (according to NOAA):
"Even the stronges materials (including the Earth's crust) move, or deform, when enough pressure is applied. So when ice by the megaton settled on parts of the Earth for several thousand years, the ice bore down on the land beneath it, and the land rose up beyond the ice's perimeter—just like the mattress did when you lay down on and then got up off of it."
Wikipedia has a map of Finland's rise because of this.
The black lines are the Ice Age sea levels. And this is despite the 120 meter rise in sea levels as the glaciers melted.
Also:
"In Sweden, Lake Mälaren was formerly an arm of the Baltic Sea, but uplift eventually cut it off and led to its becoming a freshwater lake in about the 12th century, at the time when Stockholm was founded at its outlet."
Not only are the parts that were under glacial burden are rising but parts that were not under the ice are falling:
"Forbulge collapse is one of the larger causes of ground movement in the United States. Many places in the Eastern U.S. have been sinking for thousands of years and will continue to sink for thousands more. In fact, estimates say land around the Chesapeake Bay will sink as much as half a foot over the next 100 years because of the forebulge collapse."
So, the only sensible measures are places far removed from the glaciers. This is why Sweden's increasing land area from 2018 to 2021 may not mean much.
Bangladesh is another matter. It has never been glaciated and far enough way that forbulge is not an issue. Yet it is not showing any significant change in area.
The Seychelles has not been glaciated since the continents reached their current locations. Yet their surface area has not changed 1961-2022.
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