NW Passage boats just SIT waiting for the ice to melt - NOT in 2013

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/slowest-arctic-melt-on-record-2/

Slowest Arctic Melt On Record

Posted on August 16, 2013by stevengoddard

Over the last three weeks, Arctic ice area has declined by 662,000 km², which is 60% of normal and the slowest on record.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

This has been caused by the coldest Arctic summer on record.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut