Antarctic sea ice at an all-time observed maximum. It's getting colder in the south. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
Sea Ice
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Walter, it's not clear to me if the maximum amount of ice at the South Pole makes up for the loss of Ice in the North.
Slow ice growth leads to low November ice extent
Arctic sea ice grew more slowly than average in November, leading to the second-lowest ice extent for the month. At the end of November, Hudson Bay was still nearly ice-free.
Overview of conditions
Arctic sea ice extent averaged over November 2010 was 9.89 million square kilometers (3.82 million square miles). This is the second-lowest November ice extent recorded over the period of satellite observations from 1979 to 2010, 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) above the previous record low of 9.84 million square kilometers (3.80 million square miles) set in 2006.
Ice extent was unusually low in both the Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the Arctic and in Hudson Bay. Typically by the end of November, nearly half of Hudson Bay has iced over. But on November 30, only 17% of the bay was covered by sea ice. Compared to the 1979 to 2000 average, the ice extent was 12.4% below average for the Arctic as a whole.
If it is getting colder in the South what will Al Gore do, there must be a problem with that
somehow. Oh right he can ignore good ice build up in the south because he can talk
about bad ice melting in the north it is somewhat like chalestoral in humans.
Seriously, this has been going on for decades on this planet and nothing we are going to
say or do will change much of anything. Before humans, we had jungles that produced
gasses and climate change that wiped out the present, as Mother Nature renewed herself
for the future. Does that say we should do nothing? No We have to make sure we are
responsible tennants of the planet, because in fact that is what we are. We should be
practicing environmental good practices without being forced to do so. But if we really think
we can reverse global warming or cooling or anything else, we are truly arrogant.
somehow. Oh right he can ignore good ice build up in the south because he can talk
about bad ice melting in the north it is somewhat like chalestoral in humans.
Seriously, this has been going on for decades on this planet and nothing we are going to
say or do will change much of anything. Before humans, we had jungles that produced
gasses and climate change that wiped out the present, as Mother Nature renewed herself
for the future. Does that say we should do nothing? No We have to make sure we are
responsible tennants of the planet, because in fact that is what we are. We should be
practicing environmental good practices without being forced to do so. But if we really think
we can reverse global warming or cooling or anything else, we are truly arrogant.