http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nas ... han-losses

What the sheet is going on?

Interesting finding. I would say it means a couple of things.

1. Something is going on that our models are not rich enough to capture yet. Probably this has to do with the increased pace of the hydrological cycle, as warmer water circulates toward the poles in greater amounts and evaporation in the area of Antarctica therefore increases, leading to greater precipitation. The more intense hydrological cycle has been noted in other contexts.

2. This sort of finding should lay to rest forever the notion that there is some conspiracy among climatologists so that only scary findings may be supported or published.

ant wrote:http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nas ... han-losses

What the sheet is going on?

Science is going on. Observation, collecting evidence, asking questions, forming hypotheses. Above all, keeping an open mind.

I'm just responding from memory, If I recall correctly, the 2015 IPCC report accounts for at a minimum, a 2 percent increase in permanent ice through out the southern hemisphere, where as the linked article sites the 2013 IPCC report.

The southern hemisphere is dominated by water, also the south pole is a land mass, for these two reasons the are constants that can account for increases of permanent ice increases.

Ants same link also has a NASA study that shows the decreasing area of permanent ice at the north pole, which has no land mass, and is subject to prevailing weather conditions and rising ocean temps.