Science journo Ed Yong points us approvingly to an article in Grist magazine. It's about an oil refinery in Delaware which apparently is going cap in hand to the government to help it deal with the threat of rising sea levels.
The refinery has tried to get help, submitting an application with the Coastal Zone Management Act seeking shoreline protections due to “tidal encroachment” — which is one way of saying sea level rise.
Yong is not sympathetic.
Quick, fetch me my tiniest possible violin
However, I don't think he has actually given this any thought. The thrust of the article is that oil companies have caused the sea level rise - although this is all implied rather than stated clear - but this is quite incredibly daft. You don't have to look at the question of sea level rise for very long to realise that the biggest factors affecting sea level at any particular locale are likely to be natural. As if to underline this point, a recent paper on the Delaware bay found the underlying level of sea level rise to be 1-2mm/year, but locally affected by things like sediment, development of marshes, changes to tides and so on. Some studies have therefore estimated sea level changes in the north of the bay as 3-4mm/year. When you see that the refinery is actually way up the Delaware river you start to realise that any climate-related effect is just a drop in the ocean (so to speak).