Brooke Jarvis considers the history behind the search for sea level, as described in a new book by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and probes what it tells us about science, global warming, and life on our changeable planet.
Eventually, though, Nils noticed that the seals had begun gathering on a lower part of the rock, rather than on the high point, as they once did. It seemed that the water level no longer gave them access to the very top. This was a troubling development for Rich Nils’s income: the high point now obstructed the path of his harpoon when he approached the rock from the shore.
But tides and winds, plus coastal topography and changes in the Earth’s crust, meant that even the averages often differed significantly from place to place. Different countries, even different parts of countries, began adopting their own varied and highly local baselines. France chose, and then abandoned, the mean level of the Atlantic where the Loire River flowed into it.
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