In my opinion this paper is worthy of publication. The methodology developed and described while having several caveats that are discussed by the authors, offers another way of estimating and understanding RSL derived from long term tide gauge records. The authors have made major modifications to the MS to address the reviewers comments and seem to have addressed the major issues raised. The limitations of the methodology have been clear elucidated the main body of the text and in conclusions section.

Dear Thomas Frederikse and co-authors,

I am pleased to let you know that your manuscript is accepted for publication in Solid Earth.

The only thing i would like to ask you at this stage is to please place the datasets on resulting sea-level, deformation, and deformation-corrected VLM estimates in a permanent public repository, in agreement with your submission statement. Many thanks in advance.

Thank you for submitting your work to Solid Earth.

With best wishes,
Susanne Buiter