Hey its not warm or anything, but we just set a new record for lowest Artic ice area. Yeah!! By the way , this is a month before the normal yearly minimum is usually reached.
In previous record sea ice minima years, ice area anomalies were confined to certain sectors (N. Atlantic, Beaufort/Bering Sea, etc). The character of 2007's sea ice melt is unique in that it is dramatic and covers the entire Arctic sector. Atlantic, Pacific and even the central Arctic sectors are showing large negative sea ice area anomalies.
See here for details:Cryosphere Today site
Boy those Polar bears are going to be pissed.
Soon the fun will be tracking how fast Greenland glaciers melt. New York might have to make their subway's more like submarines.