Sea level rise in NZ in the last 20 years

Some interesting data at Stats NZ about sea level rise in New Zealand. It is current up to 2020. The increase in mm between 2000 and 2020 in each site is:

• Auckland 25 mm or 1.3 mm/year
• Moturiki 8 mm or 0.4 mm/year
• New Plymouth 10 mm or 0.5 mm/year
• Wellington 30 mm or 1.5 mm/year
• Lyttleton 53 mm or 2.7 mm/year
• Dunedin 12 mm or 0.6 mm/year

Not quite Noah’s Ark is it!

There is sea level rise, but it is not an existential threat in any sense. Yes it is projected to increase but for over 30 years now the rise has in fact been quite modest.