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The premise of climate change is that the polar ice areas will melt and sea levels will rise.
If that is the case - the FIRST places that will be affected are those places near the vicinity where the melting takes places. You will not have Arctic ice melting that causes flooding in New Orleans while it skips over Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and north Russia.
The water that results from polar ice melting has to be distributed throughout all mass bodies of water north of New Orleans, before New Orleans will be affected.
The point is that because we are not located near the poles, we will have ample warning from areas near the poles where water levels will increase first. And it would be a super slow process. It won't be similar to Hurricane Katrina and the failed levees.
Sea level rise is not homogeneous throughout the world, the ocean is not like a glass of water, there are currents, changing temperatures, El Nino, hurricanes.
I did, and you brought me to a strange alternate universe where people actually think that the sea could rise in New Orleans but not in Alaska. Nobody in this universe believes that.
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