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by revelio 1094 days ago
Yes, but that's not what I said. Sea levels do rise globally at a slow rate, but it can also be offset by the land itself rising and falling (isostatic rebound), by minor changes to instruments (because the actual changes we're talking about are tiny), temperature changes affecting the volume of the ocean etc.

In that particular city and beach, you can see that tides went down between 2000-2005, then remained more or less stable until 2015, then went up a bit and stabilized at a new level. CO2 levels meanwhile go up very steadily. This data clearly doesn't indicate something CO2 driven given the various trends including declines that have happened within the time since the gauge opened in 1995. These look like natural changes, which are expected because especially when zoomed into these tiny differences everything is always changing.

In either case, South Florida just this year had "once in 100 year" floods

If they happen every 100 years then why is human CO2 emissions to blame? Even climatologists don't claim there was much CO2 impact in 1920 or 1820.