[Robert A Cook PE]

True. I cannot think of any rational reason for the Arctic data to be tracking accurately, while the Antarctic data is so far irregular.

Could be the difference in latitudes of the two sea ice areas.

But the Arctic reports seems to be behaving themselves.

[justa-hairyape]

That sea ice in Antarctica is obviously surface ice. El Nino warmed water is surface water. Arctic regions are shielded from warm El Nino surface water. And of course there is volcanic activity affecting Antarctic ice.

In our current situation we need to assume that every report from a US government agency is falsified. We obviously have one of the most corrupt governments in our history. About 2/3 of the population realizes that now. About 2-3 weeks ago, Europe reported massive crop failures due to 50 year record freezes. Will be a bad year for French wine. Serbia just had snow a couple of days ago wiping out 70 % of some of their crops. One must assume that the past week in the US will produce similar crop failures. Snow in Michigan a couple days ago. First time on that date in close to 50 years.