Now There’s More Ice at South Pole than Ever! So Much for Global Warming Thawing Antarctica!!

• Now there’s more ice at South Pole than ever (So much for global warming thawing  Antarctica!) 
  by David Derbyshire, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ 
  – Sea ice extended over 19.44 million square  kilometers (7.51 million square miles)
  – Experts  say record is ‘suggestive of changes in  atmospheric circulation’
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  Ice around the South Pole has expanded to  cover a record area, scientists revealed yesterday – a month after saying that  the North Pole had lost an unprecedented amount of its ice. Researchers say – rather confusingly – that  both occurrences are down to the ‘complex and surprising’ effects of global warming. The record Antarctic sea ice cover  was  revealed in satellite images from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in  Colorado.
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  At the end of the southern winter in  September, ice covered 7.51million square miles of sea – more than at any time  since records began in 1979. For the last 30 years the amount of Antarctic  sea ice has been increasing by 1 per cent each decade.
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  While the rest of the world has been getting  warmer over the last 50 years, large parts of the  Eastern Antarctic have  been getting cooler. Scientists say a cooler Antarctic fits in with the  unpredictable nature of climate change.
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