On 10/02/2017 15:04, JohnD wrote:
"N_Cook" wrote in message news
On track for a satellite-era record all-time minimum about 19 Feb 2017

Hmm, 2-3 weeks to go of course but not sure that there'll be a new
Antarctic record this year, seems to have asymptoted for now at least.
Problem seems to be that something like 90% of the Ant sea-ice does melt
each year and the remaining 10% is - for whatever reason (thickness,
local climate??) - fairly stubborn.

On the other hand even if that much heralded ex-Larsen C iceberg breaks
away it would only represent 1/2 to 1/3 of the daily area decrement of
Antarctic sea-ice of the last couple of weeks. ie even at this
asymptotic extreme, that calving event that would no doubt be splashed
across the world media , would hardly be noticeable in this metric.