Arctic sea ice extent averaged for February 2010 was 14.58 million square kilometers (5.63 million square miles). This was 1.06 million square kilometers (409,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average for February, but 220,000 square kilometers (85,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which occurred in February 2005.
Al Gore and other leftist lunatics have been fighting a losing battle since 2005. For the past 5 years Arctic Sea ice has been growing-—namely the sea ice has increased 85,000 square miles.
This is like the Twilight Zone where a woman in a fever dreams that the Earth is heading towards the Sun. When the fever breaks, she awakes to find the Earth has left its orbit and is heading away from it.
85,000 square miles, that’s roughly the size of Utah.