The fact is Wormley that the very organization involved in human rights is acting on information supplied by people who couldn't give a damn and make no mistake about it,nobody has a right to do what is being done in the name of astronomy and terrestrial sciences.

You come to this forum announcing a 'leap second' ,an utterly ignorant idea which assigns 1465 rotations to the Earth in 1461 days and you want people to listen to you when you scare them using climate !.

That is where the real science is at Wormley,the devastation visited on astronomy by mathematicians unable to handle the principles where timekeeping and planetary dynamics meet.It is pure criminality that contemporaries are subject to the idea that there are 4 extra rotations than there are 1461 natural days covering 4 orbital circuits of the Earth -

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1904PA.....12..649B

That is the real crisis and if it doesn't scare people to know that the same people who are not going toxic with 'global warming' are the same people who can't match up one rotation of the Earth with the normal temperature fluctuations in a 24 hour period.

The idea is to raise the standard of astronomy so some stability can return to terrestrial sciences and determining climate in terms of a polar/equatorial spectrum is part of that journey that is open to all people who wish to earn the title of astronomer.