Please look at this paper of, with maps of the Southeast Asian coast included:

Will the “Normal” coastline please stand up??

The key word in this debate is “anthropogenic,” and the biggest problem is that there is no “normal” temperature or sea level. These things have varied enormously over just the past few thousand years. North America is nothing like it was when the paleo Indians arrived 20,000 years ago, and that has NOTHING to do with CO2 emissions. The idea that we should preserve a “natural” state, defined as what the world was like prior to European colonization or industrialization, flies in the face of documented reality. It cannot be done.

OF COURSE CLIMATE IS CHANGING! It always has and always will. Maybe man is contributing now, but SO WHAT? It is going to change with or without human contribution.

How about spending all that money figuring out how to RESPOND to the inevitable? There are a few hundred million people in areas which may be underwater in coming centuries. There are deserts which will be fertile as the result of changed rain patterns. This will all happen even if every car and factory shuts down today.