Artic Sea Ice Surface Area at a Peak. Antartic Ice Coverage Growing; Global Cooling.

The surface area covered by ice in the Artic Sea is today 13,527,656 km2. This is the highest that it has been at this time of the year since before 2002. After dipping in 2007, the surface area of ice has made a record recovery. In the Antartic the ice coverage is simply growing.
These polar cool offs are probably linked to the generally observed recent global cooling which is perhaps in its turn caused by the current lack of solar sunspot activity. New Maunder Minimum ? Maybe.