Antarctic sea ice recently set another record at 2.112 million square kilometers above normal, continuing the decades-long upward trend in ice growth. But so-called climate experts claim this can best be explained by – what else? – global warming. National Snow and Ice Data Center director Mark Serreze told climate blogger Harold Ambler, “[T]here’s a whole circulation loop where water sinks in the lower southern latitudes, then there’s a return flow that brings the same amount of mass to the higher latitudes. Basically, what happens is that in the Arctic you can warm that surface water up and it doesn’t get transported away. It stays there, and it helps melt more ice, but in the Antarctic, the water gets carried away.” Perplexed, Ambler says, “I thanked Serreze for his response but told him that I still didn’t know what heated the water at high latitudes. Was it, simply, global warming? ‘Exactly!’ he said.” And here we thought global warming encompassed … well, the globe. Ironically, the AP ran a story just two months ago warning of the consequences of Antarctic ice melt. Just imagine how confused we’d be if the science weren’t “settled.” More…