The answer would be postmodernity. <span>This is the monetary or social state or state of society which is said to exist after innovation. A few schools of thought hold that advancement finished in the late twentieth century – in the 1980s or mid 1990s – and that it was supplanted by postmodernity, while others would stretch out innovation to cover the improvements meant by postmodernity, while some trust that innovation finished after World War II. The possibility of the post-current condition is at times portrayed as a culture stripped of its ability to work in any direct or independent state instead of the dynamic mindstate of Modernism.</span>
Most of all, there are a lot of cities on the coast: for example LA, NY, Lisbon, Sydney, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro. Those cities have a big population. If the sea level rises, people will have to move away from those cities (and if it rises rapidly, they might die in the flood).
Further, it could contaminate our storages of drinking water (sea water is salty and can't be drunk).
Also, it will mean less land, which also means less land for agriculture.
I believe the answer is: <span>a secret intelligence "finding" signed by the president
Even if there is no fact about the finding, all of them had legal ground to act on their own since the finding is acknowledge by the president.
The signed finding indicates that even if their actions were a mistake, the the president would take the responsibility for their action.</span>
PM me. Please. Thank you.