Arctic and Antarctic, one is melting, one getting thicker in areas where warming sea is not melting it. Isn't it amazing that things that are seemingly opposite can both follow from same thing? Is this a hoax? Well, it is not too complicated and definitely not a hoax.
Arctic and Antarctic are different cases, one an ice blanket floating in a warming sea, another mainly a continent.
If you know physics, you may remember that warmer air is able to carry more water than colder air. That increases average snowfall in some polar areas. So more ice than 150 years ago could be produced in both Arctic and Antarctic. But the warmer seawater is eating Arctic faster ice because sea currents reach Arctic ice more easily due to continents near the Arctic direct sea currents north and melt it from below. Antarctic is protected by the continent below and free waters around it where sea currents naturally circle it and lose heat before hitting the coast.
Thinking that Antarctic ice that is not melting (yet) will save the earth from warming is a very typical case of rejection of facts.
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Arctic and Antarctic, one is melting, one getting thicker in areas where warming sea is not melting it. Isn't it amazing that things that are seemingly opposite can both follow from same thing? Is this a hoax? Well, it is not too complicated and definitely not a hoax. Arctic and Antarctic are different cases, one an ice blanket floating in a warming sea, another mainly a continent. If you know physics, you may remember that warmer air is able to carry more water than colder air. That increases average snowfall in some polar areas. So more ice than 150 years ago could be produced in both Arctic and Antarctic. But the warmer seawater is eating Arctic faster ice because sea currents reach Arctic ice more easily due to continents near the Arctic direct sea currents north and melt it from below. Antarctic is protected by the continent below and free waters around it where sea currents naturally circle it and lose heat before hitting the coast. Thinking that Antarctic ice that is not melting (yet) will save the earth from warming is a very typical case of rejection of facts.