1. Drought refers to lack of fresh water in a particular region. Sea level rise has next to no bearing on whether or not rain is going to fall in <some particul

1. Drought refers to lack of fresh water in a particular region. Sea level rise has next to no bearing on whether or not rain is going to fall in <some particular region>. A higher sea level does not meaningfully affect evaporation and precipitation rates. 2. Most of the sea level rise expected from conservative[1] projections of climate change will be hitting us decades and centuries from now. Sea levels have only risen by ~8 inches since 1900, but even if we stopped emitting carbon tomorrow, we would have another 3 feet to look forward to by 2100, and 4.5 more feet by 2200. 3. Storm surges[1], caused by stronger storms, caused by climate change can make low-lying coastal areas uninhabitable, without actually drowning them due to sea level rise. ---- [1] Less conservative projections are dismissed out-of-hand as alarmist, but seem to provide a better roadmap for reality than fairy tales, like the 2C warming that the Paris Accord promised us. [2] The sea level may have only gone up a few inches, but if an average worst-storm-of-the-year storm surge has gained a foot, it may be the difference between your house being fine, and having six inches of seawater in your living room for one day of every year.