bb, "the rate of SLR was reduced during the massive floods" - no, I wasn't on HC back then. But that's not ocean levels falling - that's the rise slowing. If there really is a rise. But one of the big fears spread by the AGW alarmists has been that the oceans will rise and force millions of people out of their homes.
Now you imply that they will fall, and this was expected all along?
Were those peer reviewed papers also predicting reduced rainfall in other areas? And what is a "rainfall extreme"? We have had nothing like the rainfalls experienced in the 1890's, so it can't refer to just having a lot of rain.
