A recent UH study (featured front page of this paper a few months ago) shows a .125 inch rise in sea levels over the last seventeen years. Multiple that over 100 years and you get less than 3/4"!!! That's all folks.  So tell me how this works?
Atolls come and go...it's called erosion. That's also how beaches are created...erosion. 
These king tides will go away like they always do. As far as "record" tide...by how much? .00001 inch? For some reason we only hear "could happen" "if", etc. but not real actual numbers. Just the UH real number that tells the whole story if one really looks at it rationally. Might have been a mistake to publish that figure for all to see.
"The sky is falling"...🙄