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When ice sheets were recently found to be melting and breaking off faster than before, most of the media was relating it to global climate change. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too. If you don't consider this as evidence against AGW then you also can't consider other isolated local phenomenon as evidence for it. I'm sure scientists know this, but the media and general pundits don't.

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You can have your cake and eat it, when you have one cake at the edge of the antarctic continent (where ice meets liquid seawater) and another cake in the middle of the continent (where you could increase temperature by 30C and not melt anything at all).

I fail to see how "part of Antarctica sees increased snowfall due to raising temperature" is an evidence against AGW. At best, its an evidence against cartoon-version strawman AGW where every corner of the world warms up by an equal amount and every ice in the world starts to slowly melt away at the same pace.

That's why they call it "climate change" now, instead of "global warming". This way if it gets warmer - climate change. If it gets cooler - climate change. Bad weather? Climate change. Nice weather? Also climate change.

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