Austrian daily reports: "Huge ice growth surprises climate scientists" ... "Like one not seen in decades"!

© Kronen Zeitung/EPA

The Austrian online here has an article about something most German-language media outlets have been too red-faced to report on: The sudden growth in polar sea ice.

The opens with:

A huge growth in ice at the poles has surprised scientists and is casting questions. Is global warming taking a break? [...] For the prophets of climate change the new figures pose questions: At the poles of Mother Earth, in complete contradiction to prognoses of a complete polar melt, there is an ice growth like one not seen in decades."

Almost the entire mainstream media has been quiet about this development. So it is refreshing to see that some media are reporting the "good" news that the planet is not warming alarmingly.

Antarctic ice growth "problem for penguins"

The reports that Antarctic sea ice is growing at an average annual rate of 16,500 square kilometers since 2007. The case is pretty much the same for Arctic sea ice, the online Austrian daily reports.

The also writes that the rapidly growing sea ice surrounding Antarctica is a "huge problem" for penguins, who need open water.

"Climate science turned on its head"

Moreover, the mentions the surprise of the National Snow and Ice data Centre (NSIDC) in Colorado concerning the growth in the Arctic:

Scientists t the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder (Colorado) in any case have to admit that instead of a global warming, a global cooling is taking place. [...]

At the moment this development appears to have turned climate science on its head globally."

The then explains how the climate models have failed in that they predicted the very opposite to happen and that some scientists even desperately claimed that the measurements were wrong.

Max Planck scientists: "colder winters and cooler summers"

To explain what is happening, turned to Professor Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin. Tsonis says there are many factors at play. "."

At the end of its article, explains how the recent slowdown in overall solar activity may be playing a major role on the climate.

For years few sunspots could be observed. Colder winters and cooler summers could once again be the consequences, Max-Planck scientists say."

Reported or not, the polar sea ice is there, and it cannot be ignored.