When it comes to civilization’s end, Al Gore’s theory was simple and elegant: Increased heat (a product of the Greenhouse Effect, the Koch Brothers, the hole in the ozone layer, etc.) leads Earth’s great swaths of ice to melt, which leads the seas to rise, which leads to the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” becoming a prophetic song, in addition to a cult one.

Alas, Antarctica, which accounts for 90 percent of the world’s ice, is not melting. Just the opposite. According to a NASA study published this week in the Journal of Glaciology, “An increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.” That finding contradicts the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in 2013 declared that Antarctica was losing land ice.

Read the article “How to Put Climate Alarmism on Ice” on nationalreview.com.