[SampleMan]

Here in southeastern Virginia, our biggest city, Norfolk, is saddled with an unwanted claim to fame. As The Washington Post has reported, Norfolk is the place "where normal tides have risen 1.5 feet over the past century and the sea is rising faster than anywhere else on the East Coast."

Sure, like that spot in my swimming pool where the water is 6" higher than everywhere else.

These people are idiots. If sea level rise isn't equally distributed there can only be two reasons. First, gravity is significantly different from location to location. Second, the land is sinking.

[GeronL]

The answer is obvious!!!

Federal Grants

[bert]

and..... the plates are moving.

[DBrow]

” If sea level rise isn’t equally distributed there can only be two reasons.”

A third reason is salinity, which is gravity-related. Where a freshwater river runs into the ocean, the water level will be higher as measured by satellite, because the fresh water is not as dense. The opposite happens when seawater is more saline than the average.

But for the most part, the level is close to the same all over.

The science deniers will deliberately confuse erosion, ground sinking, and storm surges as “proof” that the seas are rising and we must adopt a global communist economy to stop it.