†  See, for example, http://www.csr.utexas.edu/gmsl/main.html. “Over the last century, global sea-level change has typically been estimated from tide gauge measurements by long-term averaging. Most recent estimates of global mean sea-level rise from tide gauge measurements range from 1.7 to 2.4 mm/yr” [that is, 6” to 9” every hundred years—MC].