> Drowning is hyperbole
English is not my first language.
How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean?
English is not my first language.
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).
Drowning is when a living organism is submerged, flooding is when buildings are submerged.
...and dies from it, which is a pretty important aspect to the word. If the organism doesn't die, it's swimming or just submerged.
Ie: The Bering Strait land bridge flooded 10,000+ years a gap and it’s still under water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia
Ultimately sea level rise is a temporary thing. Given enough time the oceans will boil as the sun ages unless something drastic changes.