Are they just going to sit there for decades as the water rises and drown very, very slowly? Might there be some other way of "saving" them?

This is another piece of the puzzle climate change deniers don't understand (I am not calling you one btw). Of course these people are not going to stay there. We will see mass migration. It is easy to dismiss climate change by saying that life will go on. But we all know how the western societies view and treat migrants these days.

> But we all know how the western societies view and treat migrants these days.

Migrants from incompatible bring crime and strife. Countries don't want to have more crime and strife.

Right, so either accept that, or spend resources on combating climate change. Or at least do not instigate proxy wars in other parts of the world.

Lmao, they don't migrate because "it's too hot", they migrate coz their goverment is fucked and the country they migrate to gives free handouts. Nothing to do with climate, everything to do culture and development.

Easy to slam poor countries and their governments when you're practically living in the most powerful and rich country in history. You sound like one of today those who never ventured outside their bubble.

I don't live in US or Germany or France if that's what you're suggesting.

Hell, my countrymen had reputation for "stealing immigrants" in Germany before the way worse ones arrived there in droves...

Similar cultures can mix. Different ones cause at best strife. AT BEST. Usually worse.

If you live all your life in "every man for himself" and absolute zero regard for law and other human beings then come to country that has those values, well, France happens.

You don't have to explain to me about culture mix. The British came and ruled us for 210 years. Before them the French and the Spanish and the Portuguese came. Unlike the migrants you are getting, we were sent the worst of them with the explicit intent to be stolen from, enslaved, maimed, raped and killed.