Grist: Flood-inducing rainfall in Australia in 2010 was so severe that it lowered worldwide sea levels.
Scientists have been puzzled by satellite data that shows sea levels fell in 2011. A paper published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters attributes a lot of the surprising sea-level decline to antipodean deluges - record-breaking rainfall that was linked to climate change.
Seas have been rising by about 3 millimeters a year in recent decades. But from mid-2010 until 2011 sea levels...