Temperatures have dropped below freezing north of 80N for the winter

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

And most of the Arctic Basin is covered with ice, much of it 3-5 metres thick.

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Summer is too short to produce an ice-free Arctic – without a radical change in climate.

Talk about an ice-free Arctic should be discussed in supermarket tabloids, not scientific publications.