Global cooling: Artic sea ice increases 60% in 2013

[Flesh Thorn]

A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.


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[Jim]

Well, if you don't like the weather; stick around and it will change.

[Flesh Thorn]

Here is a more scientific site: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ Graph shows the Artic sea ice measurements for 2013 is swinging back towards the average for 1981-2010.

[RangerX]

As long as all the bugs and vermin that have been so bad this Summer die off, I am happy. This "mild" Winter we just had did nothing helpful in that respect...

[Silverback]

As long as all the bugs and vermin that have been so bad this Summer die off, I am happy. This "mild" Winter we just had did nothing helpful in that respect...

Yeah we had a weak winter and I am ready for this one to freeze me out.