As it turns out, a single sentence out of a comment is actually not the entire content of the comment. It&#x27;s very disingenuous to cherry pick a sentence and pretend as though it&#x27;s the entire point.<p>If you want to be utterly pedantic:<p>If I or anyone else claims the sea level is &#x27;unchanged&#x27;, what I and anyone else means is that &#x27;the average sea level over a regular oscillation&#x27; is unchanged. This is clearly false; the average has increased.<p>No one - not me, not you, not climate scientists, not hacker news posters - means that &quot;The sea level as of December 02 2015 is the same as the sea level as of &lt;date in 1993&gt;&quot;. We&#x27;re interested in averages of the sea level over a year&#x2F;cycle&#x2F;whatever unit you want.<p>So you are still probably incorrect, unless you intentionally twist words against their intention. If you do that, there is no point in arguing with you; you are not interested in debate and are not genuinely trying to find truth. Though without agreeing on a method and timespan of averaging things, I wouldn&#x27;t swear you&#x27;re incorrect. My whole point is that your argument is failing because of your hostility to rationality and being challenged on it. Not that you&#x27;re necessarily wrong. (though eyeballing it definitely suggests that you&#x27;re wrong.)