Need help to explain

just want to ask ur perspective:

While the rate at which absolute global sea level is rising may seem ________, it has been far from an incidental factor in human history.

disconcerting

intractable

improbable

imperceptible

unnerving

Trivial

My simpler understanding of the sentence was

While it may seem “scary”, in reality it is far from being “scary”

While the ( negative), it is FAR from (negative)

To which making the second half positive, so first part of the sentence should be negative idea?

my answer was disconcerting and unnerving, but AIs keep insisting its trivial/imperceptible

Any explanation would be greatly appreciated

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you are not paraphrasing this correctly. That’s step one.