Short answer: (1) sea ice is not land ice, (2) area is not the same as volume, (3) large chunks of Antarctic ice areas ARE thinning, (4) in any case the increase of thin sea ice does not make up for the much larger decrease of Arctic ice..http://phys.org/news/2013-10-antarctic-sea-ice.html
Short answer: (1) sea ice is not land ice, (2) area is not the same as volume, (3) large chunks of Antarctic ice areas ARE thinning, (4) in any case the increase of thin sea ice does not make up for the much larger decrease of Arctic ice..http://phys.org/news/2013-10-antarctic-sea-ice.html