I've read recently that any set of initial conditions that are fed into the climate models yield global warming. Back to the drawing board one would think.
I think the computer models have "cried wolf" once too often for anyone to take them seriously anymore.
Here's a website that points out that many of the world's glaciers are advancing. The author links to all of his sources.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm
As the author of the above points out, not only are many glaciers advancing rapidly, but the Antarctic snowpack is growing by 5 feet in thickness per year.
The real fear in my opinion would be global cooling. One source I read said that the Earth's mean temperature may have dropped by 10 degrees in as little as 30 years.
This has been pundit Phil Brennan's theory for a long time: that we are in an interstitial warming period because of an impending ice age, NOT global warming.
Yes, one of the great con jobs is to go to the artic during the peak temperature in the late summer and freak out about melting ice. They need to balance this by going back in the late winter and show that it freezes back up.
It looks to me as if the ice and snow are just shifting location from one part of the artic to another.
I think the little ice age they predicted in the late 1970's is actually starting. The hot temperatures of the last few years are probably overshoot before it swings cold, coupled with solar activity.