Record expansion of Antarctic sea ice confounds climate scientists

More hazardous than usual for shipping in the Southern Ocean.

“ANTARCTIC sea ice has expan­ded to its greatest coverage since records began in 1978,” says this article on theaustralian.com. (This is) continuing to confound climate scien­tists and proving even more hazardous than usual for shipping in the Southern Ocean.

Perhaps that they might not be so confounded if they bothered to include the known ice-age cycles in their calculations.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/record-expansion-sees-antarctic-sea-ice-confound-climate-scientists/story-e6frg6xf-1227058298989#

Thanks to Jim Shepherd for this link

“They always come up with an excuse if and when the mainstream mass media picks up such news,” says . “Sometimes they just say it is not significant enough for sea ice to be growing at the south pole.”