THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. This dichotomy was shown in a World Climate Report blog posted recently with a similar tale told by Ohio State Researcher David Bromwich, who agreed: "It’s hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now."

Indeed, according the NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about 1 degree F since 1957 and the coldest year was 2004. This winter has been an especially harsh one in the Southern Hemisphere with cold and snow records set in Australia, South America and Africa. We will have recap on this hard winter shortly.

          This is what I've been saying for years - that the Antarctic 
          Ice Sheet is growing thicker. The Antarctic Ice Sheet covers
          some five million square miles, twice as big as the contiguous
          United States. It's almost 100 times bigger than all of the 
          rest of the world's glaciers put together. 

          In other words, more than 90 percent of the world's glaciers 
          are growing. But all we hear about is the ones that are melting.

          I consider that to be biased reporting.

See entire article with links to graphics and other papers mentioned:
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/a_new_record_for_antartic_total_ice_extent
Thanks to Alan Caruba for this link

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Here’s Newsbuster’s take on this:

While the media has focused on the Arctic, the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979, meteorologist Joe D'Aleo wrote at IceCap Tuesday:

The press have totally boycotted news from the Southern Hemisphere where ice and snow levels are currently at their highest since data have been collected.

Pretty convenient wouldn't you agree?

See good graphs at:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/12/record-antarctic-ice-levels-ignored- media
Thanks to David Squire for this link

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See also:   Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States
See Growing Glaciers