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ELI5: If Climate change is happening, where does the water go?

Okay, so we know Climate Change is happening, I believe that, i know that. The polar ice caps are melting. This should mean *rising* sea levels. But we know that Climate change is also causing drought. While I'm not sure how we have both drought and rising sea levels, if we're in a "closed" atmosphere, does that mean the water is just in the wrong place? Or is it leaving our atmosphere? 

I'm afraid I'm going to sound like a denier, I'm not, I just really don't know.
gpt
Yes, water in the wrong place, basically.

Sea level rise is partly from ice on land melting, and partly from the water expanding a little as it heats. But sea ice is floating so melting it doesn't directly raise sea level, although it can unleash glaciers it was previously holding back.

Droughts and floods are mainly down to shifts in weather patterns. Even if the same amount of rain falls worldwide, if it stops falling where it used to and starts falling where it didn't there are problems because all the farmers are where the rain used to be.