Just googled a bit. The earliest hints that I found on the fly for scientists pointing at that global wamring would cause a temporary grow of ice (and other paradoxical effects), may it be in area covered, may it be in thickness of ice, dated back to
1997. However, I googled very short only, the first three pages of results only, and then lost interest. I know that I read about seasonal growing of ice due to warming when I started to study. and that was autmun
1989.
The information is all out there, since quite long. One just needs to want to see it, instead of stucking one's head in the sand, or playing "see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing" with those three chimps. The effects this thread is about, are no surprise. they are no contradiction to global warming. they have been
predicted roughly twenty years in advance.
They are evidence for global warming at the poles taking place. Unfortunately they do not have a lobby spending hundreds of millions and even billions to promote them in public and push them in political decision making. That's the decisive difference to climate sceptics, who are in unlimited supply of money.