Oh, fiddle. This is just not going according to plan. If the earth doesn't start matching our computer projections soon, I am going to get really, really mad.

"Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.

On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978."

Hold the phone. All may yet be well.

"A recent study by Lorenzo Polvani and Karen Smith of Columbia University says the model-defying sea ice increase may just reflect natural variability.

If the increase in ice is due to natural variability, Zhang says, warming from manmade greenhouse gases should eventually overcome it and cause the ice to begin retreating."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capi...-high-saturday/

I can see Al Gore on SNL singing, "Baby, It's Cold Outside" now.