Then we have articles like this one that contradicts your observations.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146594-eight-low-lying-pacific-islands-swallowed-whole-by-rising-seas/
Eight low-lying Pacific islands swallowed whole by rising seas
At least eight low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean have disappeared under rising seas.
Sea levels are currently climbing by an average of 3 millimetres per year around the world due to climate change.
But they are creeping up even faster in the western Pacific, where a natural trade wind cycle has caused an extra build-up of water over the last half-century.
In Micronesia and the Solomon Islands, which lie in the western Pacific, sea levels have risen by up to 12 millimetres per year since the early 1990s.
In 2016, a study led by SimonAlbert at the University of Queensland in Australia found that fiveof the Solomon Islands had been lost since the mid-20th century.
Now, PatrickNunn at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia has observed a similar phenomenon in Micronesia.
