And predictably, the head of NSIDC (U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center), Mark Serreze, used the 0.1 percent change and asserted less summer sea ice is Antarctica’s reaction to a warming world, despite having grown in size by 33 percent since 1978 and covered almost entirely by snow. And Serreze said this record-breaking sea ice loss was making it “harder to deny” the “impact of #Climate Change on planet Earth.”

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  • Antarctica’s weather

So, what’s happening in Antarctica? According to Paul Homewood, the simple answer was weather. Changing wind patterns, Homewood wrote on his site, caused by the Southern Annular Mode flipping negative allowed winds to penetrate from the north. That elevated temperatures while “pushing sea ice towards the coast.” Another issue was the accuracy of the satellites, also called the margin of error.

 NSIDC admits on its site that calculating sea ice loss, especially in summer, can be difficult with large discrepancies. That’s because satellites have trouble distinguishing between melt ponds and ice, leading to a margin of error of plus or minus 15 percent. Accuracy is highest when the ice pack is thick and concentrated. It decreased when thin ice increased.

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Pine Island Glacier

Another area of ‘concern’ was the Pine Island Glacier, which broke off a chunk recently. In earlier reports, researchers said continental winds were pushing warm sea water beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, causing it to calve. Now they’re blaming the local weather conditions. What atmospherically biased scientists have refused to acknowledge is that Pine Island Glacier sits atop an active 5,000-mile-long heat-emitting fault.