But it's not really balancing out if you look at the global totals. https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-...

"If global warming is real why is it cold right now?" asks the fake skeptic.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The Arctic and Antarctic are two seperate ecosystems, it's not a balance.

I responded to this naive comment upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13177599), but the interpretation you give is simplistic -- see the q-and-a at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

That q-and-a is a great reason why one should not seize on one obvious interpretation of a press release, out of context, as some kind of gotcha. You have to know the context about the limitations of the data, what it's really measuring, and what the dominant physics are.

What do you want to say by that? There was snow in Hawaii recently, but it doesn't make climate change any better.

Here's a nice little graph of the last 12 years. The trend doesn't look good.

http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/land-ice/

Hudson's Bay has literally no ice on it for a major portion of the year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/polar-be...

Pretty sure that this little mini trend has reversed. I just read an article on it. Go google it if you care.

Haha, don't try to pull that one here. When there's less ice it's global warming, when there's more ice it's climate change. Get on board.