ignored because inconvenient

If you assume an ostrich position and bury your head in the ice perhaps the fact the the Antarctic ice cap is growing might not be as reportable as the chicken little claims that we are going to be inundated by rising seas. The fevered reporting of some ice shelf calving in the western Antarctic is in sharp contrast to the ignored report by the British Antarctic Survey based on work by the Antarctic cooperative survey that the Eastern ice area which is four times larger than the Western is growing and denser than it has been in decades. For the sea level to rise appreciably there would have to be extreme melting of the Antarctic ice cap.This is not occuring. Why has A P and the general media ignored this story. I guess they don't want to rain on the U N , Al Gore and his sycophantic congressional and administration followers. It is deplorable that psuedo-science is the basis for much of our political leaders work.  

 

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Surface area is not volume, year-to-year is not long term

Ice does tend to form in the WINTER, even in the current conditions. The comparision you are talking about is for only 2 years - from 2007 & 2008. All that it indicates is that 2008 was less hot than 2007 - however, there is no dispute that both 2007 & 2008 were both hotter than average. And, you probably don't know this, but you are talking about surface area, not ice volume. The surface area increased from 2008 to  2007, but the total volume of ice was still less in 2008 than in 2007.

inconvenient

If you reread the comment you will see that it refers to Antarctica not to the arctic. and this study measured back 70 years ..the density of the ice increased to 1.87..........

I have no idea who to believe on the GW issue

Seems like both sides are more motivated by political agenda and money than they are by scientific truth.  It's really hard to cut through all of the biases involved.  (Anyway, I hope the conservatives are correct, because if GW is truly real, then there are no policy initiatives that will make it all better.)