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The NOAA Sea Level Trends data and visualizations are fascinating:

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/

Sea levels have been monitored for over 100 years... because of commerce.

East coast US seems to be going up about 3mm/year, or a foot per century. That's on top of 7 foot tides.

West coast US is very steady, barely moving at all.

The sea level is dropping in Alaska by 10mm/year. Dropping in Scandinavia also.

Some cities show rising sea levels, but really the cities are sinking due to collapsing aquifers; New Orleans and Bangkok. And measurements made on river deltas are always going to be wild due to silt and all.

Most notably, I can't find an example in the NOAA data of the rate of sea level rise increasing due to industrialization. Anybody?

parent jdontillman 3 years ago

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