Sea Ice News Volume 3 number 13 – 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum reached, it's all gain from here

Anthony:
Walt Meier is one of the few on the ‘warmist’ side whose behaviour and demeanour I respect.
I think it would be good if you were to accept his offer of a Guest Article whether or not he agrees to your “trade”. I suspect a constructive dialogue would be possible with him and – if so – that could be a breakthrough from the attacks which have dominated the ‘climate news’ this week.
Richard

What we are observing – warming of the Arctic while the Antarctic cools – is a cyclic phenomenon that is called the polar see-saw. Based on what has happened, the Arctic will now cool.
The following a link to a paper by Henrik Svensmark that uses borehole temperatures in the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice sheet which supports the assertion that polar see-saw is occurring and that there is no lag in the phenomena.
The fact that there is no lag rules out ocean currents as a possible mechanism. Also recent deep ocean current measurements, using specialized buoys, have shown that there is no global thermalhaline converyor which completely invalidates the ocean current mechanism.
Svensmark`s explanation of the phenomena is decreased cloud cover in high latitude regions causes warming in Arctic as the albedo of low level clouds is higher than open ocean and cooling in the Antarctic as the albedo of the Antarctic ice sheet is higher than low level clouds. There is an interesting twist to the phenomena to explain the 10 to 12 year delay from the onset of major reduction in the solar magnetic cycle and a change in planetary clouds in the high latitude region.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0612/0612145v1.pdf
The Antarctic climate anomaly and galactic cosmic rays By, Henrik Svensmark
Contradictory trends in temperature in Antarctica and the rest of the world, which are evident on timescales from millennia to decades, provide a strong clue to what drives climate change. The southern continent is distinguished by its isolation and by its unusual response to changes in cloud cover. While the rest of the global surface is (on balance) cooled by clouds, they have a warming effect on high-albedo snowfields[5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].
NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) [11, 12] provided valuable data on the effects of clouds at different latitudes. They can be interpreted to show that, if changes in cloudiness drive climate change, the anomalous behavior of Antarctica is predictable.
Borehole temperatures in the ice sheets spanning the past 6000 years show Antarctica repeatedly warming when Greenland cooled, and vice versa (Fig. 1) [13, 14]. North-south oscillations of greater amplitude associated with Dansgaard-Oeschger events are evident in oxygenisotope data from the Wurm-Wisconsin glaciation[15]. The phenomenon has been called the polar see-saw[15, 16], but that implies a north-south symmetry that is absent. Greenland is better coupled to global temperatures than Antarctica is, and the fulcrum of the temperature swings is near the Antarctic Circle. A more apt term for the effect is the Antarctic climate anomaly.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130942.htm
Cold Water Ocean Circulation Doesn’t Work As Expected
The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete “conveyor belt” of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.
A 50-year-old model of ocean currents had shown this southbound subsurface flow of cold water forming a continuous loop with the familiar northbound flow of warm water on the surface, called the Gulf Stream.
“Everybody always thought this deep flow operated like a conveyor belt, but what we are saying is that concept doesn’t hold anymore,” said Duke oceanographer Susan Lozier. “So it’s going to be more difficult to measure these climate change signals in the deep ocean.”
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.999,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

D. J. Hawkins says:
September 19, 2012 at 10:23 am
I said pretty much the same over at Climate etc on Judith’s ice thread.

Forbes has an article about Antarctic sea ice setting a record: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-sets-another-record/
The comments are going crazy claiming this doesn’t mean anything. Funny that none are spouting the meme that it’s due to ozone depletion nor when they mention the record low Arctic ice noting the big storm in the Arctic.