> Sea ice = floating ice. Its melting does not increase the average sea level.

As the article states:

"...the sea ice rings Antarctica's massive ice shelves, the extensions of the freshwater glaciers that threaten catastrophic sea level rise over centuries if they continue melting as global temperatures rise."

I might also add that ice reflects more sunshine than sea, and a reduction of ice, whether it is on land or sea, reduces the amount of solar energy that is reflected back into space:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sea-ice-climate.html

Your literally describing why it’s gonna start makeing levels rise soon

But saying see since it isn’t rising yet we’re okay

They are measuring year over year so summer is irrelevant to the study.