An interesting, if unreported, fact is that arctic sea ice has increased by 26 percent since 2007. That's according to data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado that shows summer sea ice in the Arctic has increased by 409,000 square miles in that time.

While the American media has been utterly silent on this, leaving most Americans still thinking that the Arctic is soon to be ice free, the UK's Daily Mail was willing to report the facts in a recent story with the provocative title, "The mini ice age starts here."

Regarding the onset of a cooling trend, the paper cites the work of Professor Mojib Latif, described as a "leading member" the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the paper, Latif and his colleagues are scientists that "could never be described as global warming ‘deniers’ or skeptics."

Yet, Latif and his colleagues began to argue in 2008 that a cooling trend, based on the behavior of the oceans, was imminent. According to these scientists, the oceans "have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer." Though the Daily Mail credits Latif and his collaborators with first predicting this change in climate based on the oceans, they weren't alone in coming up with the idea. Also in 2008, famed hurricane expert William Gray predicted cooling based on ocean circulation.

“We should begin to see cooling coming on,” Gray said. “I’m willing to make a big financial bet on it. In 10 years, I expect the globe to be somewhat cooler than it is now, because this ocean effect will dominate over the human-induced CO2 effect and I believe the solar effect and the land-use effect. I think this is likely bigger.”

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