Antarctica is getting colder.
There has been no statistically significant global warming for 15 years
despite CO2 going up 10%
Wu et al., 2010 determined that the GIA commonly assumed for Greenland
was way too high and that the 2002-2008 ice loss rate was 104 Gt/yr
rather than the oft cited 230 Gt/yr. Even at 230 Gt/yr, it would take
1,000 years for Greenland to lose 5% of its ice mass.
Looks like someone has lost a decimal point or two in claiming 9 meter
sea level rise by the end of the century.
“Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about
once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889,
this event is right on time,” says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist
and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data."
Have a look at AKasofu here for a broader view.
http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~sakasofu/pdf/two_natural_components_recent_climate_change.pdf
