As Everest may lose ice, but it appears that both poles, the Arctic and Antarctic ice regions, have grown substantially in recent years. Growth which is more than enough to offset the ice loss in Europe.
On September 18, 2017, Tony Heller posted that Arctic sea ice extent is up 40% from this date five years ago, with much of this gain seen in Northern Greenland. (see the following for the breakdown:
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/09/40-sea-ice-ice-gain-over-the-past-five-years/ )
“At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the Antarctic continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
The extra snowfall that began 10,000 years ago has been slowly accumulating on the ice sheet and compacting into solid ice over millennia, thickening the ice in East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica by an average of 0.7 inches (1.7 centimeters) per year. This small thickening, sustained over thousands of years and spread over the vast expanse of these sectors of Antarctica, corresponds to a very large gain of ice – enough to outweigh the losses from fast-flowing glaciers in other parts of the continent and reduce global sea level rise.
Zwally’s NASA team calculated that the mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year.
“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”
Many bloggers and climate scientists have found mathematical flaws with the IPCC report.