Climate alarmists are struggling with the fact that global ice cover has increased in volume for the last six years straight. Snow and ice was supposed to become a thing of the past, yet here we are with more snow and ice than back in the 1990s.
So, the alarmists are now forced to blow the dust off of their science books which clearly state that temperature is but one driver of ice formation.
Precipitation plays an important part in it too, and climate realists have pointed this out from the start. Antarctica is more likely to gain than lose ice in case of higher global temperatures, because Antarctica is a desert with hardly any precipitation. It can only gain in ice if precipitation increases.
The expected result of higher global temperatures is an increase in ice volume on land and a decrease in ice extent on water, because sea ice will melt in warmer water, and more moisture in the air will result in more ice in cold places, especially dry places like Antarctica.
This fact has been known for decades, yet it's only now that the alarmists are pointing this out, desperate as they are to hold onto their core belief in global manmade warming.
But the realists have held this position all along. The alarmists are late to the party. Besides, the supposed negative effect of global warming was desertification and rising sea levels. Now we have a greening planet and stable sea levels. The world is in a better place, so the climate isn't and never was anything to worry about.
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