claim: Together, these two unaltered [ sea level ] datasets indicate that global mean sea level trend has remained stable over the entire period 1992-2007, altogether eliminating the apparent 3.2 mm / year rate of sea-level rise arising from the “adjusted” data.
evidence: This network was used, in combination with satellite altimeter data, to establish that global mean sea-level rose 19.5 cm ( 7.7 in ) between 1870 and 2004 at an average rate of about 1.44 mm / yr ( 1.7 mm / yr during the 20th century ).