No models predicted that.

Plenty of info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Maldives

Of note, most of the country no longer has fresh groundwater, and 50% of the national budget goes to climate mitigation.

Seas are rising faster than climate models predicted:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10196-1

almost like NOAA, had it not been savaged by this current anti-science admin, would be able to lend further credibility here. As it stands, several researchers that I know of, formerly of NOAA, were banging this drum loudly for decades.