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I think it is more useful to avoid the simple minded hyperbole we see in movies that is not part of any technical assessment of the risk.  We can bandy about notions like Orlando being a port city, but to me, it's not a serious discussion.  And sure, we COULD experience something rapid and dramatic with ice sheets at some point, that isn't something scientists are projecting in the next few decades, at least today.

That all is aside to the clear fact that we are not meeting our commitments, and the commitments are not enough anyway, and "we" aren't going to meet them.  Ergo, perhaps we should try and be realistic about all of this.  Instead, we have one "side" saying "we're gonna drown" and the other saying "this is all hooey, don't worry at all".

People who are genuinely smart are going to find average intelligence pretty dumb.  
That's nothing to do with any one of us, it's just a fact.  
Conversely, stupid people will find average intelligence as seeming smart.

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People who think they are smart think the masses are dumb, but in fact, the masses average average intelligence.

And honestly, are the masses really all that dumb? 

I think I'm pretty smart. I'm working on planning out my future life. Thinking about investment and my retirement, considering where I might or might not live if I choose to leave CA, trying to plan my career, etc etc.

If I had an amazing job opportunity in Miami, and everything personally would also line up, I wouldn't let concern about sea levels in 2100 stop me from accepting it. It's just on too long of a time horizon given that I'd be 122 years old in 2100, so I highly doubt I'll see it. And even if somehow I did live that long, I'm sure I would have signs well before then that would say "get the hell out of FL" and get ahead of it before it was underwater. 

Would you call me dumb if I moved to FL? I doubt it, because you'd be implicitly calling a bunch of posters on this board dumb for choosing to live there. Do we call OAM dumb for living in the desert? No, because clearly he had a job opportunity that made sense for him on a personal level. 

It can simultaneously be stupid to have a giant city in the middle of the desert relying on imported water to survive, and smart for individual people to move to that city. 

back more than a few decades ago

some folks spoke about the San Andreas Fault and part of Cali breaking off the continent and there being new coastal cities

some of that might just have been wishful thinking

I think there is an often tendency to "look down on the masses" which I take as folks thinking they are mentally superior to "the masses", who shop at Walmart and bought Bud Light before they didn't, and drive pickups, and are generally not behaving like some college grad living in NYC thinks they should behave.

lol, sorry I didn't find the predicted sea level rise and then search through a list of FL cities by elevation to make sure I looked serious and smart to you.

Someone done pissed in your Cheerios.

Not hardly, you just constantly post idiotic false twaddle and then get mad when I call you on it.