Hanrahan, I've never read (I've never accused alarmists of...

Hanrahan, I've never read (I've never accused alarmists of actually reading) that observation of your on HC so I'm not ignoring you. You realise that a data set of 1 does not make a statistical observation! ( It actually is an observation! and a reliable one over six decades.)That was my point above. You say you're not sinking so no one else is. It just doesn't work like that. (No it doesn't! But you argue that the sea is rising: That's different.) The earth is a complicated place.

If some parts of the world seem to be measuring higher water while Aus, a large stable land mass isn't, I would be tempted to look for more local explanations than "the sky is falling!!!!" Australia is is the central part (or the rock) of Gondwanaland. Those bits that separated are, by definition, less stable than us. As the earth giveth, the earth takes away.