Too funny: With Arctic sea ice extent more than 70,000 Manhattans larger than he suggested five years ago, warmist Serreze claims he has "a sense of amazement" that sea ice numbers are so low

Arctic cap on course for record melt: US scientists - Yahoo!7 News

"The numbers are coming in and we are looking at them with a sense of amazement," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the university.

"If the melt were to just suddenly stop today, we would be at the third lowest in the satellite record. We've still got another two weeks of melt to go, so I think we're very likely to set a new record," he told AFP.

The previous record was set in 2007 when the ice cap shrunk to 4.25 million square kilometers (1.64 million square miles), stunning scientists who had not forecast such a drastic melt so soon.
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Serreze said it was possible that the rapid melt was a factor in severe storms witnessed in recent years in the United States and elsewhere as it changed the nature of the planet's temperature gradients.

[Serreze]:  “…the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012″ | Watts Up With That?

Its always important to remember what has been predicted by the elders of science, and to review those predictions when the time is right. In four months, just 132 days from now at the end of summer on the Autumnal Equinox September 22nd 2012, the Arctic will be “nearly ice free” according to a prominent NASA scientist in a National Geographic article on December 12, 2007. That is also the same article in which the future NSIDC director made himself famous with this quote:

“The Arctic is screaming,”

…said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.