Sea ice (what is being displayed in that graph) at the S pole is increasing because the melting polar continental ice keeps the surrounding oceans cooler in summer (November is Spring in Antarctica, remember?). Is that ice increasing faster than its decreasing in the Arctic?. The circular Coriolis weather and current pattern in the Southern Ocean partially isolates the S pole from warmer waters. You know that, I pointed out the link myself and you did not dispute it. Why bring it up now except as a means of cherry-picking, obscuring the issue, distracting people and covering your ass?

BTW, the very same NSIDC website where you lifted that graph from also says the following:

Warming at the South Pole?

Polar scientists say no on both counts. Ted Scambos, lead scientist at NSIDC, said, “These systems are not directly connected, and they certainly don’t offset each other. The climate and ocean processes that control summer Arctic ice extent are completely different from the ones that drive the Antarctic.” Data records indicate warming at both poles, but Antarctica’s geography is forcing warming to show in different ways than it does in the Arctic. “Antarctica’s trend is not nearly as large or as clear as the Arctic’s,” Scambos said.

http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/11/14/arctic-melt-versus-antarctic-freeze-is-antarctica-warming-or-not/

As for your inaninties about publish-or-perish
conspiracies, Darwinianly deluded climatologists, UN Socialist cabals, and the untold billions to be made in unnecessary global warming mitigation are just anomalism on your part. Same-old, same-ole SDAI Soros soliloquies.

The real money is to be made in unrestricted sale of fossil fuels, untaxed, and subsidized by governments. That's the industry where the money is actually being made now. That's the industry where the propaganda money is being spent to continue those practices("defensive response" my ass), and its the industry that has a history of doing whatever it takes to get its way. Remember, I used to work for both the energy and oil industries. Means, motive, opportunity...

TB, you just don't want to admit you're wrong, and you don't want to admit why. And I'm tired of going over it. Come back and talk when you can come up with a cogent physical explanation of why summer sea ice at the N pole has dropped about 40% over the last 30 years, one that doesn't involve black helicopters, bigfoot and Masonic Illuminati.