Localised sea level rises?, page-7

There is another effect Dex, the earth's crust is not hard like an egg shell it is more plastic and as the heavy ice burden of the northern land masses that built up during the last great ice age melts, northern Europe rises in geologic time. Can't help you with details.

Another effect is New Orleans. By building dykes to keep out floods the deep silt dries and NO sinks.

They talk about Bangladesh only being a metre above the sea and that it will be inundated. Of course it is, it is a bloody great delta of the Ganges R. Provided sea level rise is slow enough the flood waters in the river will slow sooner, drop the virgin Himalayan silt which becomes new fertile soil and will keep the delta lands above sea levels.



Last but not least, in 1950 our family moved to a very low lying suburb where the spring tides would come up into the gutter and Dad had to fill the back yard a bit to keep it dry. That suburb and that house block are still habitable today.