There have been recent reports that the Antarctic is actually warming after all. For a long time one criticism of the AGW hypothesis was that the Antarctic was not warming as would be required. The AGW proponents came up with a lot of odd, and often humorous, explanations for how Antarctic cooling actually supported the AGW hypothesis. Now they have come up with their old standby approach that they used to get rid of the Medieval Warming Period, the existence of which discredited the AGW hypothesis. That approach was to use computer algorithms that were not revealed to modify the record. Now the same thing has been done with regards to the Antarctic temperature. In this case some sort of algorithm has been used to fill in the temperature in the large expanse of the Antarctic where there are no weather stations (which in the Antarctic is most of the continent). Surface temperature does not follow any sort of normal distribution, so it is hard to see how this approach could be reliable, and like most of the AGW activity, it certainly cannot be verified. The temperature increase for the Antarctic by this latest feat of legerdemain is 1F over the last 50years. That is, then, an average temperature now of -49F rather than -50F. It is hard to see how that increase, even if true, would cause anyone to expect the Antarctic ice sheet to melt any time soon. Here is an article on this subject from the UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4332784/Despite-the-hot-air-the-Antarctic-is-not-warming-up.html