On Sat 2024-03-30T16:03:30-0700 Paul Hirose hath writ:
> "Even a few years ago, the expectation was that leap seconds would always be
> positive, and happen more and more often," Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at
The paper in Nature takes a very narrow view of history.
Agnew looks only at data in
The Duncan Agnew's paper is behind a Nature paywall. However there's a
complimentary version at The Verge;
Melting ice, missing seconds.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/24113810/melting-ice-missing-seconds
which leads to:
"Even a few years ago, the expectation was that leap seconds would
always be positive, and happen more and more often," Duncan Agnew, a
geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of
California's San Diego campus, said in a statement. "But if you look at
changes in the
