"James Brown" wrote in message
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See:

http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084...mum2011-en.pdf

How many organisations & different methods of assessing sea ice
extent are there?

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

This suggests we are close to a new record, but not there yet.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
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