[Fraxinus]

The sea level is not rising. The land is slipping toward the ocean by continental drift.

Actually it is not continental drift, it is isostatic rebound. DC (and the entire area from Wilmington, NC to Trenton, NJ) is sinking because Quebec is rising. ~3 mi thick ice sheets are heavy.

[bert]

Very good...... isostatic rebound I will try to remember that term