But I gotta get some real work done here to prove that my Solidworks subscription fee wasn’t wasted.

Again, it’s kind of refreshing to deal with somebody firing references at me instead of monkey poop.

Ref. 14 and 15 is the IPCC. ‘Nuf said. The next one after your quote is Ref. 16, the NSIDC report on the 2012 minimum.

That bit on the ice-free arctic was from a National Geographic article. Apparently, from your link, it’s the same place Watts got it.

How do YOU research a person?

(1) Environmental Conditions
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe. In the past 100 years, average Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate.14 Average Northern
Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years.15 In 2012, Arctic sea ice reached its smallest extent in recorded history, 1.3 million square miles.

http://www.navy.mil/docs/USN_arctic_roadmap.pdf

Obviously the NAVY has been corrupted by that sweet global warming cash… see the charts predicting the open water periods in the coming decades… but everyone knows the NAVY is in the pocket of George Soros, so they cant be trusted either.

Even you cannot deny that we are headed towards an ice free arctic… The NOAA has this to say:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130412_arcticseaice.html

But what would they know, right?

My original posting on this on Sunday, before the subject ever hit the news and radio shows, was as follows:

Your post was the DAY AFTER it appeared in Watts Up With That….
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/31/ooops-new-nasa-study-antarctica-isnt-losing-ice-mass-after-all/