Sea level has risen 8 inches?! I just saw a picture of the Key West buoy sitting high and drive just as it has for the past 40+ years, since I first visited it. The beaches are still more-or-less in the same places around Florida. Battery Park in New York City is still about the same. Heck, the Statue of Liberty hasn’t flooded.
Absolute sea level has been rising about a millimeter or 2 per year for many years and is not accelerating. Sea level change relative to land mass varies widely accordingly to local conditions of geology, and subsidence from various sources. Much of the east coast and gulf coast is slowly sinking, which makes for great misleading headlines about sea level rise.
“....Battery Park in New York City is still about the same....”
What I was trying to say is that excessive coastal groundwater extraction is a problem that needs to be addressed in Florida.
The beach I grew up on on tge Long Island Sound seems quite the same now as it was decades ago since I first heard of global warming THEORY
tge pond is gone. That was from the 1992 nor’easter - the perfect storm