I believe you are well intention-ed with your post. I hope you don't mind me asking, are you involved in any of these scientific studies?
Also are you familiar with ground subsidence? If you are not I suggest that you might research that before you go about posting things about rising sea levels.
For the record, I am not a scientist or researcher. We both live near a coastal area and it is a fact that some areas do have a problem with rising sea levels, but the determination has been made that it is not from melting ice bergs as you suggest but rather the ground level is dropping due to the pumping out of ground water for domestic and agricultural use. The "net" effect ends up the same, but for totally different reasons. Here in Texas in our area we have the Harris Galveston Subsidence District that regulates ground water pumping, for the exact reason I stated. People are all to quick to sight rising temps as the problem when in fact that may not be the case at all. Visit their website or give them a call and talk to those folks since you are in Houston.