On the Antarctic sea ice

Because the Arctic sea ice melted to a new low extent record (nobody is happy about that) this summer, the skeptics have had to engage in serious CYA maneuvers.  The most prominent maneuver has been to downplay the drastic loss of Arctic sea ice, and to play up the very slight increase in Antarctic sea ice extent that is being observed right now, too.

On Twitter I have tried to repeatedly blast away at tweets by Marc "Climate Depot" Morano (who links to articles written by the his personal court jester, Steven Goddard), as well as meteorological sideshow Joe Bastardi, and even commenting to Revkin as well. And today I posted to the Washington Post on the exact same subject.

The main and extraordinarily easy to discover thing that the skeptics engaging in this CYA maneuver are  deliberately or unintentionally overlooking is the following. Let me make it big and clear so that they can see it (if they actually looked here, which I doubt they ever would):

THIS INCREASE IS PREDICTED BY MODELS OF GLOBAL WARMING.

So they are doing two stupid things.  One, they are engaging in a PPPP (perfectly predictable  propagandistic ploy), and two, the observation that they are pointing to is actually evidence for the exact same thing they are trying to be skeptical about;  the exact same thing that they are trying to provide their skeptical ilk with information about, to facilitate their ability to deny global warming.

How smart isn't that?