| Details1: | With all the talk about global sea levels, it is easy to lose track of what is happening all around us, in the places where we actually live.
Here in the UK, back in 2009, the government organised a series of Regional Climate Adaptation Studies, that warned us to expect sea level rises of 0.35 metres by 2050. But what has actually been happening in recent years?
John Church and Neil White, sea level experts from CSIRO, published a detailed study of global tide gauge records for the period 1880-2009, a couple of years ago. They used 290 stations, not all current, which were allocated to “1 degree x 1 degree grids”, to provide proper weighting. An estimate for the GIA, or Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, was given for each grid cell – this took into account how much of the sea level rise was due to land rising or falling.
The stations they used were fully vetted to ensure accuracy.
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