Antarctica Sets New Record For Sea Ice Area

[Chef Ramsay]

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica, which, as I reported in my book, has been steadily increasing throughout the period of satellite measurement that began in 1979, has hit a new all-time record high for areal coverage.

The new record anomaly for Southern Hemisphere sea ice, the ice encircling the southernmost continent, is 2.074 million square kilometers and was posted for the first time by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s The Cryosphere Today early Sunday morning.

More...http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/29/antarctica-sets-new-record-for-sea-ice-area/
The global ice area of this morning is over a million square kilos above average.

[Chef Ramsay]

Antarctic sea ice hits second all-time record in a week

Antarctic sea ice has hit its second all-time record maximum this week. The new record is 2.112 million square kilometers above normal. Until the weekend just past, the previous record had been 1.840 million square kilometers above normal, a mark hit on December 20, 2007, as I reported here, and also covered in my book.

Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, responded to e-mail questions and also spoke by telephone about the new record sea ice growth in the Southern Hemisphere, indicating that, somewhat counter-intuitively, the sea ice growth was specifically due to global warming.

More...http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-second-all-time-record-in-a-week/
Let's face it, any director of any climate data center is likely to say that anything that happens is related to global warming. I didn't sleep well last night so I must blame that on global warming ya know what I mean..

[cech4204a]

I'm not sure if i got this news well, as i understand (correct me if i'm wrong) ammount of ice has got bigger? As i understand global warming should cause it to get smaller, so i don't really get the logics here. Are they just telling us bullshit about global warming ? 

[Schleicher]

The area is bigger. That doesn't say anything about the volume.

[Spendulus]

The area is bigger. That doesn't say anything about the volume.

Volume versus area is very complex for Antarctica, and aggregate measures do not have much influence on what happens to the West Peninsula, which is something of a valid concern regardless of whether total ice is increasing down there.