Global Warming and Continuous Change

From CBS News:  Just a quick glance at the new U.S. Climate Normals maps published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday is enough for most climate scientists to say, “I told you so.” And it’s not just because the maps show a warmer and wetter nation, as one would expect with global warming; it’s also the specific geographic pattern of those changes.

As senior energy analyst Glenn Doty points out, perhaps the most problematic aspect of climate change is that the nastiest effects, e.g., sea-level rise, will change continuously for centuries.

Thus we have questions like: Where should we rebuild New York City when Manhattan Island goes under water?  There really is no good answer to that question, unless you want to put it next to Denver at 5000 feet above what is now sea level.