On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:03:37 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
But the rise rate isn't constant. And 7 cm is a _huge_ amount,
enough
to increase the damage of storms by billions of dollars.

Everything on a planetary scale is huge compared to a human scale.
And billions of dollars is quite small compared to the cost of the
entire human civilization.

If 7 cm rise of the ocean level is huge, then what about one cm? Or
one mm? Large, medium, or small?