I have been viewing conflicting information on climate change, the National Snow and Ice Data Centre reported 2014 April sea ice growth was at record levels. NASA reported Antarctic sea ice data in September 2014 had increased; yet a number of agencies state Antarctic sea ice will completely melt in coming centuries and is unstoppable, what is going on?
I have to ask, how could the two leading agencies publish such widely different from conclusions from other agencies? Surely, one group of agencies has to be right and the other wrong - how could these conclusions differ so greatly? What are the implications of Antarctic sea ice growth over the period, surely this has to be positive?
We are now heading into a La Niña weather pattern following the El Niño phenomenon, the Pacific Ocean warmed three to five degrees during El Niño and summarily cooled by a couple of degrees below standard causing higher than normal air pressure in the Western Pacific and lower air pressure in the Eastern Pacific. As La Niña generally causes extreme storms with increased cyclones (typhoons in Asia) and heavy flooding, I will be eagerly following sea ice growth in Antarctica to see if it reverses current trends.
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