The reason why I ask is I found this link on Wikipedia showing that
sea levels have risen since the 1980's by about 5cm, and by about 20cm
since 1880.

Links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:R...Level_Rise.png

Now I have lived in Teignmouth, Devon, England all my life (1971),
which is on the coast and has and Estuary called the River Teign

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a railway in the late 19th centuary
which runs along the sea wall from Dawlish Warren, through Dawlish and
Teignmouth, and along the banks of the River Teign to Newton Abbot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_D...ailway_Company

There is no evidence to suggest that sea levels have risen in this
neck of the woods since 1880's, you can even see the high water mark
on the river bank walls from old photos is still in the same place
today.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3Den%26sa%3DN

Bonos Ego wrote in message
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The reason why I ask is I found this link on Wikipedia showing that
sea levels have risen since the 1980's by about 5cm, and by about 20cm
since 1880.

Links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:R...Level_Rise.png

Now I have lived in Teignmouth, Devon, England all my life (1971),
which is on the coast and has and Estuary called the River Teign

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a railway in the late 19th centuary
which runs along the sea wall from Dawlish Warren, through Dawlish and
Teignmouth, and along the banks of the River Teign to Newton Abbot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_D...ailway_Company

There is no evidence to suggest that sea levels have risen in this
neck of the woods since 1880's, you can even see the high water mark
on the river bank walls from old photos is still in the same place
today.


http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...centre.com/Daw
lish%2520main%2520Pic%2520File/Sea%2520Wall%2520Cover.jpg&imgrefurl=http://w
ww.therailwaycentre.com/Dawlish%2520Sea%2520Wall%2520Main%2520Pages/Dawlish_
main_page.html&h=162&w=200&sz=91&hl=en&start=185&s ig2=cnvzKXIGALKsT3HE653hbg
&usg=__k3lYJHMyU1it4Sqxj6gKECZmedw=&tbnid=IAOCRzzp _kNh7M:&tbnh=84&tbnw=104&e
i=DbzgSLWYFYaO0QTSqYGmBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3DRailway%2BRiver%2BTeign%26start%
3D180%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN



First find a neutral bit of the UK neither rising nor sinking since the last
ice age.

From BODC data for Lerwick , between 1957 and 1999
mean sea level has only risen 30 mm relative to the rising land there.
But for Portsmouth between 1962 and 2002 then sea level
relative to presumably sinking Portsmouth then 170mm rise.

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