> Update: That didn’t last long – Antarctica set a new record just days after this report at 2.112 million square kilometers above normal.

Antarctica, the southern polar region climate alarmists conveniently erase from memory, continues to shatter icy records. The continent just recorded an ice concentration of 2.074 million square kilometers above the average, which breaks the previous 2007 record of 1.840 million square kilometers. Global sea ice is now 1.005 million square kilometers above the norm. The forecast doesn’t look good for envirofascists, either. As meteorologist Joe Bastardi recently wrote, “For the first time in over a decade, the Arctic sea ice anomaly in the summer is forecast to be near or above normal for a time!” While Antarctica continues to grow exorbitantly, the Arctic is beginning its turnaround as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) begins to flip. The rhetoric remains heated, but the facts grow more icy cold by the day. More…