In case you needed any more evidence that the climate science world is completely FOS, this story is unbelievable.
Another reason why NSIDC doesn’t talk about pre-1979 satellite data, is that during the winters of 1974-1976, Antarctic sea ice never froze over completely. A huge hole in Weddell Sea ice formed during the winter.
In the image below, I overlaid August 1976 ice on August, 2012 ice (white.) Note the large increase in winter sea ice which has occurred over the last 40 years.















