New Study: Antarctic Ice Melt Has Contributed Less Than 1 Centimeter To Sea Level Rise In The Last 30 Years

Sea Level and Length of Day
Loss of Polar Ice and Rising Oceans would increase inertia of earth and Length of Day
The atomic clock is used to measure length of day. Nine leap seconds were added in the seventies, and they got a late start, they did not start until 1972 after making an initial adjustment. 6 leap seconds were added in the eighties. 7 leap seconds were added in the nineties. Now, only 5 leap seconds have been added since the end of 1998 and none since 2016. The Length of day has decreased and that would not be true if there was any kind of runaway sea level rise. For whatever reasons, they are lying or just not understanding what they claim to be expert at doing. I have had this discussion with many people for more than a decade. It is still holding. I read a story about melting ice and increasing rate of rising sea level, then I check the atomic clock data, I see that no leap seconds have been added, and none expected, then I relax and just say, not yet. Is their science wrong? Are they just extremely dishonest? Or, both?
 
Watch for it, if runaway sea level rise starts, the Length of Day would increase with more and more added leap seconds.
NO LEAP SECONDS ADDED MEANS THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT SEA LEVEL RISE.
Less Leap Seconds added since 1972 means sea levels have gone down for fifty years and more.
Length of Day is measured accurately by the atomic clock. There is a lot of uncertainty in measuring and averaging sea level, but not in measuring Length of Day.
   
You can check this information on the official website:
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/atomic-standards/leap-second-and-ut1-utc-information

People have said the inertia of earth is huge, but the inertia of the oceans is tiny. The Crust of the earth floats on the core and the oceans are significant when compared to the inertia of the crust. During major ice ages, Length of Day was significantly shorter. Most ice on land is in or near polar regions, closer to the spin axis. Most water is in oceans closer to the equator, further from the spin axis.
Ice mass is close to the spin axis; water is far from the spin axis. When the dancer or skater pulls arms in close, the spin is faster, when the arms are out the spin is slower. When water is moved from the oceans to be sequestered as ice on land, the inertia of the crust of the earth is reduced. When ice on land thaws and meltwater enters the oceans, the inertia of the crust of earth increases.
 
GHGs or other factors have not caused Sea Level Rise since 1972, the consensus science is clearly mistaken or clearly dishonest. We have not been able to do anything about what they tell us, but we clearly do not need to believe in the Increasing Sea Level Rise or any other alarmist information that they promote when Length of Day has decreased for fifty years, which guarantees sea levels are lower than in 1972.
 
Climate harm is not happening due to manmade CO2 but the harm caused by their “so called” fixes are happening now, and yes, their man-made harm is already very bad.
Power and water outages have already proved their “so called” fixes are bad and getting worse with every fossil fuel energy generation replaced by wind or solar. I once read a story in the “Houston Chronicle Today” by James Osborne after the Ice Storms, in Feb 2021: “this link is not a link to James Osborne’s story, but a link to the story he was writing about”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
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James Osborne wrote: “Grids once stayed on in colder weather”.
Before warm tropical ocean currents flowed into the polar regions, there was little ice sequestered on land and oceans were much deeper. The polar regions are great ice machines. Ice machines must be powered and there is energy dissipation. When polar regions are frozen there is little evaporation, snowfall and little sequestering.
Tropical warm currents finally flowed into the polar regions and promoted evaporation and the water vapor changing into ice in the clouds promoted the IR out from the clouds, the ice was stored on land and was build up until ice flowed into the salt water and formed sea ice.
Warm tropical ocean currents power the great ice machines. Sea ice forms to turn the machines off and thaws to turn the machines on again, this is self regulated.