The Antarctic hockey Stick

The Antarctic has set a new record for sea ice.

source: Talking about the Weather.

The story has become one of the latest global warming denier memes on the internet.

To a mind in denial, increasing sea ice at the Antarctic suggests that the world is not warming but cooling.

Or at least that the Antarctic is cooling, which is exactly what the author of Talking about the Weather, Harold Ambler, suggests as a cause for the increase in sea ice:

...the temperature at the South Pole has been declining during the past four decades as well. 

This statement makes him my latest Global Warming Bozo: sea ice of course does not form at the south pole, it forms in the ocean, and the southern ocean has been warming:

Despite warmer sea-surface and air temperatures over the Southern Ocean, there has been a slight increase in Antarctic sea-ice extent...

British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic sea ice has been increasing despite warming temperatures:

Source: Zhang, 2007

Does that throw doubt on the reality of global warming? No, it should prompt you to look for other factors that explain the apparent contradiction, which of course real scientists are doing:

A paper published in Nature Geoscience by Paul Holland of the British Antarctic Survey and Ron Kwok of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology presented satellite tracking evidence that “reveals large and statistically significant trends in Antarctic ice drift, which, in most sectors, can be linked to local winds”. Jinlun Zhang of the University of Washington has used computer models to study the interaction between wind and ice and in a recent paper he concludes that changes in winds are resulting in both more compaction within the ice pack and more ridging, causing a thickening of the pack and making it more resistant to summer melt. In simple terms, wind drives ice out to sea, creating open water near the ice-edge that is more likely to freeze. 

reportingclimatescience.com

Just the latest example of many theories.

But opposing ideas are too hard for climate change clowns to juggle; they fall over on their clown noses. Parp!

More ice? Must be cooling! Have a pie in the face.