Antarctic sea ice reaches record high while IPCC models predicted the opposite: Paper in the Journal of Climate
Study 'finds that most climate models erroneously predict that Antarctic sea ice extent decreased over the past 30 years, which 'differs markedly from that observed'. As noted in the abstract, Antarctic sea ice has confounded the models by instead increasing over the satellite era. In fact, it is currently at a record extent that is more than 2 standard deviations above the 1979-2000 average'
The authors lament, “The negative [Antarctic sea ice] trends in most of the model runs over 1979 – 2005 are a continuation of an earlier decline, suggesting that the processes responsible for the observed increase over the last 30 years are not being simulated correctly.’
