Alex Halperin, news editor at Salon, suggests that Arctic ice is controlled by human CO2 emissions, while Antarctic ice is controlled by wind patterns and ozone

Jonah Goldberg has nothing to say about climate change - Salon.com

This weekend the climate change skeptic blog Real Science posted the following:

Antarctica has broken the record for the greatest sea ice extent ever measured at either pole.

...Meier called this year’s total “barely above what we might consider a normal range.” Moreover, he said the breadth of the continent’s ice is governed more by northerly wind patterns, which have likely strengthened due to the hole in the ozone layer.
...Meier called the drop in Arctic ice “a much more significant minimum than the Antarctic is a significant maximum.” Goldberg is undoubtedly hard at work on an article that will clarify this complex phenomenon. Either that or he’s the kind of hack who has zero interest in whether the available evidence supports his cherished beliefs.