EDITED: Whether he is right or wrong or good or evil is irrelevant to my analysis. I try not to make judgements about the physical universe based on how my ideological enemies or friends feel about it. I may not be successful at this, but at least I try.

Your final paragraph betrays your error, the validity of my scientific opinions is not necessarily a function of my political preferences. A lot of Liberals are into New Age nonsense, but I don't believe in that either.

And if you've been "watching the data so much longer than I have", why haven't you bothered to mention it in your frequent attacks on the idea of global warming over the years? You seem to be mighty selective in your use of evidence, TB. There's more lawyer than engineer to your analysis.

As for the Antarctic, there are differences, pointed out in the same article you use as evidence but neglect to discuss in detail.
The Antarctic contains much more ice than the Arctic, it is also surrounded by water. This tends to smooth out, rather than exaggerate global temperature variation. It acts like a flywheel, damping out the variations that are so much more noticeable in the Arctic. And most of the sea ice in Antarctica is ice shelves, it hasn't frozen there in place, its been shoved out there by the continental glacier covering the continent.

http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/01/11/sea-ice-down-under-antarctic-ice-and-climate/

“The two polar regions are essentially geographic opposites,” said Sharon Stammerjohn, a sea ice expert at the University of Colorado Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). “Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is land-locked, while sea ice in the Southern Ocean is surrounded by open ocean.” That means that while Arctic sea ice is confined in a given space, Antarctic sea ice can spread out across the ocean, pushed by winds and waves. That also means that ice extent varies much more in the Southern Hemisphere than it does in the North.

Overall, Antarctic sea ice has grown slightly over the past thirty years of the satellite record, but the trends are very small, and the ice extent varies a lot from year to year. In Southern Hemisphere winter months, ice extent has increased by around one percent per decade. In the summer, ice has increased by two to three percent per decade, but the variation is larger than the trend.

Although Antarctic sea ice is increasing overall, certain regions around Antarctica are losing ice at a rapid pace. In the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas, west of the Antarctic Peninsula, the sea ice cover has declined dramatically in the last thirty years, with the winter sea ice cover lasting three months less in 2010 than it did in 1979. The main areas where ice extent is growing are the Ross Sea (north of the largest U.S. base, McMurdo) and the eastern Weddell Sea (south of Africa), although there is a lot of variability.

Those who care to read the entire article in NSIDC about Antarctica will see that it does not necessarily negate any of the comments on global warming made anywhere else on the website. I'm sure you read it, but you neglected to mention that. You're free to disagree with the overall conclusions, but not to select those that support your case while simply ingoring the rest.