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June Pang July 3, 2014 5:39 am ER

June 2014 averaged 11.31 million square kilometers (4.37 million square miles). This is 580,000 square kilometers (224,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average for the month.
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June 2014 is the 6th lowest Arctic sea ice extent in the satellite record, 490,000 square kilometers (189,000 square miles) above the previous record low June 2010. The monthly linear rate of decline for June is 3.6% per decade.

Of course, what happens in June is a very poor predictor of what happens in September. Still, most of the climate weenies are predicting a well below-average ice cover come the equinox, but still not as low as the 2012 record. Over the last 35 years, the September low ice record has been broken 8 times; in ’84, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’02, ’05, ’07, and ’12. Statistically speaking, we’re probably not due for another just yet.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2014/07/Fig3_June2014_trend-350×260.png

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http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/Sea_Ice_Extent_v2.png

Care to make a guess where the “2010′s Average” dotted line is going to fall?

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  • Estimates put the net loss of ice [from the Greenland Ice Sheet] at anywhere between 82 and 224 cubic kilometers ... by mcfly 2014-07-03 10:52:57
    • I'm really not all that concerned about the melting of the ice sheets. by ER 2014-07-03 11:22:57

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