Antarctic getting colder Now has largest sea ice pack on record

This is not about Global Warming. This is about how the press goes about making you worry about Global Warming.

From The Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung via IDW online

Bremerhaven, April 21, 2008. The Antarctic deep sea gets colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses. This is the first result of the Polarstern expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association that has just ended in Punta Arenas/Chile. At the same time satellite images from the Antarctic summer have shown the largest sea-ice extent on record. In the coming years autonomous measuring buoys will be used to find out whether the cold Antarctic summer induces a new trend or was only a "slip".

Boy I had to look around for this one. It barely got translated from the German. Isn't that odd though we are so concerned with climate change these days that major events in Antarctic go unremarked unnoticed and in general unheralded ? You would think the major news organizations would pick this up ?

Now when the subject was the Arctic ice receding we got an amazingly different response.

From the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html

Over all, the floating ice dwindled to an extent unparalleled in a century or more, by several estimates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/science/21arctic.html

The ice retreat has been particularly striking this year. The Alaskan side of the Arctic Ocean has stretches of thousands of square miles of open water; the fabled Northwest Passage through the islands of northern Canada was free of ice for weeks;

Bloomberg News

``We have already witnessed major losses in sea ice, but our research suggests that the decrease over the next few decades could be far more dramatic than anything that has happened so far,'' Holland said yesterday in a statement posted on the NCAR Web site. ``These changes are surprisingly rapid.''

And going back to 2005 on the VOA

Scientists say new U.S. and Canadian satellite images have tracked what they call a stunning reduction in Arctic Sea ice following the northern summer. The shrinkage is far more extensive than normal for the fourth consecutive year. The researchers say the current rate of decline could mean that the Arctic would be free of ice well before the end of the century.

What is even stranger is that Arctic Ice now seems to be in an uptrend year over year and had a remarkable bounce back from the summer.

Are we in danger of being flooded out? Well not from melting sea ice. Both caps are growing and the important one the Antarctic is growing rapidly. The arctic could melt completely and we wouldn't notice the oceans going up an inch.

Are we in danger of doing really stupid things because the news media is failing in its job of reporting facts ? Yes indeed, and Global Warming is just the tip of that iceberg.
Crossposted at Redstate