[Bender2]

Re: ...at 130 metres above current sea level, is high enough that it is not in danger of flooding should the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt due to global warming.

When you consider that the North Franklin moluntain peak towers at 7,192 feet in El Paso, Texas, and sea shells can be found on its top from when it was beneath an ancient sea, that thought is not very comforting.

[CarrotAndStick]

The Himalayas have fossils of sea-based animals on even the highest peaks. The reason is not water level, but the formation of the mountains themselves... the Himalayas were once part of sea-floor of the ancient Tethys Sea, that existed between the island of India and Asia, before the two collided.