68% more ice pack this year than last... record growth... New Ice pack grew by 1,000,000 square miles. Like obama... climate whores lie... always.
Yep.
I was curious, so I looked it up. That's about the size of everything in the US, east of the Mississippi. Approximately.
Not a trivial amount of ice.
I like to go to this site every couple of days to track ice progress.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
The interactive chart part way down on the left is interesting. It does show a higher ice extent in the Arctic during the 70s & 80s then falling through the 90s and 00s. And now appears to be rising again.
Reading about Arctic exploration in the early 1900s it appears a number of areas had ice free summers back then.
One thing I know - it ain’t got warm enough on Greenland for the Vikings to move back and start farming again - yet.