And now it's global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year
* Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012 * BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013 * Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month
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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