There is one simple scientific fact that the idiots among us, the intelligentsia and the mendacious have to grasp and that fact is the sea level cannot rise in one place and not another. If the sea level rises then it rises everywhere.

However the planet is in constant flux and land will sink and land will rise which will alter the land level to sea level, locally and only locally. As the land sinks the high tide level will change as it will where the land is rising.

God save us from people like the Mayor of Dunedin who claimed the sea level was rising and the area was going to drown. Thank God for other people who have more than one brain cell who demonstrated that the coast was sinking there rather than sea levels rising.

Alastair Bourne