A closer look at the available data on the very site you quote is enlightening. Do open the Interagency Sea Level Rise Scenario Tool. A random scan of the globe will show you that in Hawaii, for example, the projected sea level rise by 2100 is 1.27 m. For Grand Isle it's 1.72 m. For Virginia Key, (Miam) it's 1.12 m.
A rise of only 60 cm (2') will cause 10% of South Florida to be under water. Island nations such as Tuvalu will become uninhabitable with a sea level rise of only 20-40 cm. That's because storms drive the sea progressively deeper inland, destroying homes and eroding soil. Children growing up right now in Vanuatu will probably lose their country in their lifetime.
It's easy for us to be calm regarding sea level rise and take our time to plan. Time for these people, however, is rapidly running out. And their contribution to global warming has been negligible.
Furthermore, you say that people getting rid of snow and ice should be happy. Yet, do you understand where most people on the planet get their water from? The very same glaciers which you consider to be a nuisance. When it gets hot enough that far northern or southern countries get a break from the ice, glaciers on the mountains closer to the equator go away entirely. Rivers run dry. Cropland turns to desert.
This year was the hottest April in India seen for more than a century. There were recorded temperatures on the ground exceeding 60 C. And it's just 2022. It doesn't even need to get that hot for people to die. In humid climates temperatures above 35 C become lethal.
You're focusing on sea-level rise like it's an isolated thing. It's not. There will be severe storms, megafires, floods, droughts (depending on where you live), and massive, MASSIVE waves of climate immigration which will dwarf anything we've experienced so far. Not to mention wars for water and arable farmland. The cascading effects of lost forests (currently the best CO2 absorption technology we have) and added CO2 from those fires will make future projections even grimmer.
It's funny how the climate conditions during the Mesozoic Era are brought up like it's some kind of serious argument about anything. The planet was doing fine. WE were not on it at the time, however. The climate was ideal for reptiles, not so much for mammals.
Panic is not good, I agree. But complacency and relying on imagined future tech that will magic our problems away is even worse. And millions of people on the planet simply can't afford to not panic.
