[Vince Ferrer]

“Its really not surprising to people in the climate field that not every location on the face of Earth is acting as expected – it would be amazing if everything did,” Parkinson said. “The Antarctic sea ice is one of those areas where things have not gone entirely as expected. So it’s natural for scientists to ask, ‘OK, this isn’t what we expected, now how can we explain it?’”

But only after long periods of ignoring the data, followed by another long period of denying the data. Then the turning point comes when you can finally get grant money to study the thing you've been ignoring.

[fhayek]

So what he is saying is that it would be amazing if their predictions actually came to pass. Amazing.