I think you've mistakenly read the article... I've just done a search for this article and all that hits refer to a 19.5cm rise between 1870 and 2004...ingeborg said:Says on a BBC news article that sea level rose by 19.5 m between 1870 and 2004, fastest near the end, so about 500 years to go (ish) till this - well scary :isad: best move to the mountains,