Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year

And now it's global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year By David Rose

·        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.