Read here. Well...er,..okay...the smallest melt rate for the first 15 days of July then! (Hot update on sea ice melt from Watts Up With That: Sea Ice News #14 – an inconvenient July.)
In spite of the constant, ludicrous, short-term, navel-gazing pronouncements of U.S. climate scientists and their useful idiots, the mainstream press, the world is not burning up, nor melting. If climate scientists feel so strongly that the focus should be on the short-term, then the above indicator of Arctic ice melt is surely important and indicative also. It does seem to confirm what is happening over the medium-term, globally: