Oh You Wicked Girl! I'm Melting!

said Antarctica, as widely reported in the press.

Or maybe not says William Connolly of the many names.
First of all, this is only 3 years of data; to make any sense of it, you have to assume that this is representative of the long term trend.
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Another point (see last IPCC link) is that its quite hard to match the *observed* sea level change to the various components; switching Ant from -ve to +ve would help resolve this.

How does this affect predictions that Antarctica will become a net relative sink in the future, due to extra precipitation outweighting increases in melt? Not at all, I should say.
OK, I'll scratch that off my worry list for a couple of years.

William goes on to discuss some of the complications and uncertainties of the measurement method.

Now about the acidification of the ocean?

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