The title of this post is over the top, but was provoked by the repeated claims last summer earth was going to hell right now.  For example,

The world’s summer of hell.  Hot, hot, hot: Summer of extremes setting heat records around the world, July 2018, CBC

Summer 2018: On the highway to hell? August 2018, Beyond Ratings

Earth at risk of becoming ‘hothouse’ if tipping point reached, if we can’t stop it we’re in a hell of a mess..August 2018, CNN

The Summer of Hell.  Climate change is here and we are living in its embers.  August 2018 The Week (US)

Meanwhile, back in reality, Arctic ice is spreading everywhere.  The image below shows the European side in the last two weeks:

Laptev and East Siberian in the middle are frozen solid. On the right Kara has added 400k km2 ice extent up to 700k km2, 75% of March maximum.  Below is the freezing proceeding on the Canadian side.

Baffin Bay in the center next to Greenland is extending south and added 300k km2.  Hudson Bay on the left added 400k km2, with the western coastline freezing all the way down into James Bay.  The graph below shows 2018 is matching the 11-year average after being down in October.

Both MASIE and SII have 9.9M km2 ice extents matching the average for day 320, Nov. 16.  2007, 2012 and 2017 all recovered from their September lows, while 2016 was much slower to refreeze.

Region	2018320	Day 320  Average	2018-Ave.	2007320	2018-2007
(0) Northern_Hemisphere	9937017	9942096	-5078	9824193	112824
(1) Beaufort_Sea	1069588	1064590	4999	1059182	10406
(2) Chukchi_Sea	615028	667249	-52222	519486	95541
(3) East_Siberian_Sea	1085198	1077597	7601	1055581	29617
(4) Laptev_Sea	897845	897648	197	897845	0
(5) Kara_Sea	701192	655668	45524	774297	-73105
(6) Barents_Sea	65798	167138	-101340	149482	-83684
(7) Greenland_Sea	378273	482289	-104016	533946	-155672
(8) Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence	711715	555346	156369	545899	165816
(9) Canadian_Archipelago	853337	851902	1435	852539	798
(10) Hudson_Bay	426092	261863	164228	244531	181560
(11) Central_Arctic	3107467	3186378	-78911	3163043	-55576

Deficits in Chukchi, Greenland and Barents Seas are offset by surpluses in Kara Sea, Baffin and Hudson Bays.

Meanwhile, in Nunavut, it is a great time to be a polar bear, even more of them than people want.

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