Hm, to me it looks as if there was a slight upwards trend in the data. Some fitting would have to go on to see if that&#x27;s true; however, most of the time, fitting by approximating by hand is not so bad. Look at the smoothed data too, it&#x27;s more obvious there.<p>Also, mind that the scale is in cm and numbers given for sea level rise up to now is in the mm range. We can argue about the clear drop in 2014. And I wonder what happened in 1998. Good source, thank you!<p>edit: Stopped wondering about 1998, it&#x27;s clearly a strong El Niño signal, and the theory fits as well. Thus, it will probably go back up after next year.