While everyone seems to be watching the Arctic extent with intense interest, it's bipolar twin continues to make enough ice to keep the global sea ice balance near normal. These images from Cryosphere today provide the details. You won't see any mention of this in the media. Google News returns no stories about Antarctic Sea Ice Extent.
Antarctic Sea Ice
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Here's the graph, see for yourself:
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Here's global sea ice:
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