So, let me get this straight...the seas have risen 3.2 millimeters per year, on average, over the past two decades.
Multiply that by 6.93 and you get an amazing 2.5 inches of sea level rise.
2.5 inches.
Stop the presses.
Seriously, folks, when you factor in a margin of error, and compare it to the historical data of the planet's climate changes, that number doesn't do crap for me. I'm still going to eat meat, drive a car, run an air conditioner, and have fun. And fart.
Now, the amazing part of this is that continents rise and fall all of the time due to things unrelated to CO2. The Pacific is shrinking, the Atlantic is growing, Miami is sinking, Venice is sinking, K2 is still growing, etc. Given all of that continental mass movement, and the subsequent effect on the water levels of such movement, and throwing in the tidal effect of the moon and the impact of the world's winds on water movement (thus, water level), it is amazing that science thinks it can pin down any significant part of that estimated 2.5 inches to global warmin...uh, climate change.
Tectonic plate movements won't be stopped by conservation. Withdrawal of ground water supplies won't be stopped anytime soon unless we find another way to provide water to the masses. And islands certainly won't stop tipping over if we don't stop putting so many more people on them.
The Earth will change, populations and civilizations will move and change (Iraq used to be a paradise a couple thousand years ago). During this time, poor people will suffer a bit, wealthy people will do just fine, the middle class will be asked to sacrifice for both the poor and the rich, and smart people will make a profit from all the chaos. And, life will go on.
In other words...same shit, different day.
Frankly, I won't stop living my lifestyle until the uber wealthy folks and politicians cut back their lifestyles...actually, that wouldn't change my ways either.
It is comical for the mass media and politicians to shout that the sky is falling, and then ask for everyone (else) to conserve, while at the same time they are living large and wasting umteen billions of people's money.