>> How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean? A tide. Sea level rises are small and highly predictable over time. All

>> How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean? A tide. Sea level rises are small and highly predictable over time. All claims of dramatic sudden flooding or drowning are based on assumed correctness of models that, as scottLobster points out, have always been wrong (they always overshoot).