INTERACT: Is it time to build a new Noah's Arc? A few facts about global sea level rise

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
This dramatic account of the flood, taken from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, is familiar in much of the Western world. A catastrophic flooding of the sort, however, can also be found in the folklore, legends and traditions of the Near East, both Americas, India, China and South Asia. Traditional Irish folktales contain information about a great flood and… the colonisation of the Emerald Isle by Noah’s descendants. An oddly familiar variant of the story can be found on the eleventh tablet of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, where the protagonist survives the flood brought onto the Earth by the god Enlil. Having received a warning, he built a great vessel which held his family and possessions along with plants and animals of all species.
What do scientists make of these stories?