May I ask Peter Otway, when was the last time he was on the Arctic Sea Ice, or at the North Pole?
Son Phil has been escorting three trips a year to the North Pole for the past eight years. Last years Northern summer, which is when they travel, the Skipper of the Nuclear Powered Ice Breaker commented to him, the ice build-up seems to be getting heavier each year.
I know Peter he's just a Russian Captain, not a scientist, just a man who makes his living, observing and working with such phenomena and didn't just read about it somewhere.
May I also add that Phil also travels to Antarctica and hasn't noticed any discernable ice loss in the Weddell Sea area either, just another unscientific observation I suppose.
I do not wish to start another aimless round of Climate Change arguments, these comments are just observations that have been passed on to me, but I have observed that the colder summer we are experiencing, has ruined my tomato production this year, not very scientific either.

Bill Wilkinson Mt Maunganui.