As you apparently know, the planet is not a rigid shape. The land pushes up in areas and sinks in others.
I just finished reading Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"...there is no global warming...period.
Just more water for me to bass fish!
Right - so when an island or something seems to be flooding it could just mean it's sinking .... I've learned that there's the same amount of water since creation (evolutionary or whatever) on earth but in different forms. Sometimes there's more of one kind (liquid) than other (gas or solid) ....