Midsmartin wrote:Nimrod, I'm no expert on sea level measurements, so I Googled the two places you mention. It appears that UK sea levels were rising at 1.4mm a year for a period when the global average was found to be 1.7mm per year.
Seems pretty much in agreement given that sea level may rise by different amounts in different parts of the world. And that variation means that wet should use global measurements, not just one or two locations.
https://www.ntslf.org/products/sea-level-trends
So I'm unsure what it is about the data that your referring to? Am I missing something?
What you are missing is that the rate of increase should have clearly speeded up in recent decades, as the concentration of CO2 has risen. The rate of increase in sea level recorded at North Shields and Newlyn has not speeded up.