One of the measurements climate change deniers, like to use for obfuscation are changes in coastal Antarctic sea ice. The changes are small compared to the rapid loss up north, but some of them are increases. Naturally, the same people who pay attention to every microgram of gain down under somehow manage to dismiss the glaring losses happening in the Great White North — not to mention the thousands of thermometers the world over — but when a couple of hundred miles of sea ice apepars down south they are on it bay-bay! Well, that’s how their particular right-wing con works. But now some researchers have a tentative explanation for the observation: [Read more…]