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Walt Meier used to claim that positive Antarctic ice anomalies were smaller than negative Arctic ice anomalies, and only occurred in the Southern winter.

Massive fail on both counts.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008

Current version : http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/ZonAnn.Ts.txt

Archived 1997 version : http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/GISTEMP/ZonAnn.Ts.txt

When glaciers recede (as they have been doing for most of the past 20,000 years) alarmists blame it on global warming.

They also blame advancing glaciers on global warming

Iceberg B09B has cut off Cape Denison from the Southern Ocean and filled Commonwealth Bay with fast ice, leaving penguins short of food and their numbers are falling

with climate warming, the rate at which icebergs are calving off the ice edge is increasing so the number of times in which icebergs will cut off access to colonies is going to occur more frequently.”

The penguins of Cape Denison | Science | theguardian.com

GISS reports high precision Antarctic temperatures starting in 1904, without the benefit of a single data point.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/ZonAnn.Ts.txt

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

In 1958, the head US weather researcher said that Antarctic temperatures had risen five degrees in first half of the 20th century.

CLIMATE WARMING IN THE ANTARCTIC – 5-Degree Rise Over the Last Half Century Is Recorded at Little America ICE IS FOUND THICKER Director of U. S. Program Says Sheet Drops 10,000 Feet in Many Areas – View Article – NYTimes.com

GISS shows zero warming in Antarctica during that period of five degree warming.

data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/ZonAnn.Ts.txt

As is often the case, GISS temperatures bear no resemblance to reality.

The Guardian censored my comment, but through the magic of Twitter and Climate Depot – it made it there anyway.

Antarctica Live day 18: stuck in a white Christmas | Science | The Guardian

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXcPruHGv9o]

Eighty three years ago today, Mawson was sailing along the Antarctic coast. In 2013, global warming nutcases trying to retrace Mawson’s route are hoping an icebreaker comes and saves them.

MAWSON’S EXPEDITION. – View Article – NYTimes.com

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/GHCNM-v3.2.0-FAQ.pdf

I’m guessing that it has to do with money.