Can Antarcticaice rest easy now?

You'd think he would but I don't know whether his true motivation is genuine belief in a climate crisis.

I think most of the warmers' motivation is political and I think they're worried about November.

I would trust a glaciologist over a climatologist any day when it relates to glaciers in the Antarctic. He is the most qualified of anyone to speak if this is business as usual.

Most climate models seem to suggest that Antarctica will be stable overall (loss in West, gain in East).

Dynamical ice sheet models are still not fully developed and tested though (there's plenty of PhDs being done in them right now, so over the next 3-4 yrs we should be getting lots more result. Bristol is quite big on this stuff...), so predictions are a little wobbly.

It appears to be have been losing over 100bn tons of ice/yr recently:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/East-Antarctica-is...

But at that rate it would take a long, long time for Antarctica to melt away and we can't even be sure that's a long term trend due to warming. I think worry over Antarctica as a whole is a little premature, but it's certainly a possibility.

sorry starbuck i'm gonna have to go with Jim Hansen on this one, he told me the ice is disappearing and i believe him as he's not been wrong yet

And of course, you ARE a world re-known climatologist, right? Right? No? I thought not...