UK Sea Level Rise Not Unprecedented, Nor Accelerating

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UK Sea Level Rise Not Unprecedented, Nor Accelerating
September 3, 2020
 

By Paul Homewood


We are probably familiar with sea levels charts for Newlyn and North Shields, the main two long running tidal gauge sites in the UK;

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=170-053

 

Both show a steady rise around the long term trend, but with often large monthly variations. To get a better idea of long term trends, I have calculated decadal averages from the monthly data supplied by PSMSL.

North Shields only has full data up to 2017, so I have used 2008-17 as the current decade there:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/uk-sea-level-rise-not-unprecedented-nor-accelerating/