Quote from Ricter:
Meanwhile, this in from people who just got back:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN29351585
And from people who live there:
http://www.aaanativearts.com/alaskan-natives/inuit-hunters-thinning-ice.htm
"Scientists have fretted for decades about the pace at which the Arctic ice sheets are shrinking. U.S. data shows the 2009 ice cover was the third-lowest on record, after 2007 and 2008"
That data is wrong. It was misread by the sensors.
"As opposed to the NSIDC information, AMSR-E data - compiled in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Advanced Earth Science and Technology Organization of Japan - shows that sea ice extent in 2009 is running ahead of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008."
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm