Antarctic Ice Situation
Here is a quick look at the ice situation in the Antarctic. The MSM has been a lot quieter on the Antarctic (apart from the potential breakup of some of the ice shelves surrounding the continent). The actual sea ice extent has generally been above normal since 2012. More ice somehow doesn’t fit very well into the “Global Warming” narrative. To be fair, the sea ice extent was below normal through 2016/17 but has since recovered back into the normal range. Remember 2016 and 2017 were influenced by a very strong el Nino (i.e.: higher than normal global average temperatures).
A 2015 NASA study looked at the ice changes in the Antarctic. Based on their analysis, the Antarctic ice sheet gained roughly 112 billion tons of ice per year between 1992 and 2001 and 82 billion tons per year between 2003 and 2008. That’s a gain of roughly 1.4 trillion tons of ice over that period (when we were supposedly warming).
As a quick aside, the lowest temperature ever measured on the planet occurred in June of this year (2018) at the Antarctic summit (-144 °F (-97.8 °C)), beating the old record by 15.4 ° F (8.6 °C). Again, these facts are not ringing endorsements for the “Global Warming” narrative. Antarctica is not melting anytime soon.