Maybe because the risk, as expressed in this article, is a tad overblown? For example, I've never heard anyone talk in feet when it comes to ocean levels.
Really? Quick wikipediaing shows projected sea level rise by 2100 to be a couple of feet, albeit with a lot of uncertainty.
Let me guess! Sea levels will rise 2 ft +/- 2.5 ft right?
More like +5/-1
+5/+1 more like. The sea will rise, but it's just a question of how much.
The projections are all over the place (thus why I was so vague) but I don't think they went quite as far as to have error bars that went into the negatives. Not that there's anything wrong with that.