Yes, they rise faster around the 3rd world countries. The only way to save them is to throw money at them until they aren’t considered 3rd world anymore.
Posedion is racist. He makes seas higher around islands of browness.
My first thought as well.
I guess I could see tidal differences which averaged could be more than the global average.
A lot of it would depend on what and how they are actually measuring and what the references are. Definitional details cause lots of problems.