With Arctic ice having reached its September minimum, it is time for the annual update. My figures come from NSIDC https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
The last fourteen (14) years show the lowest annual arctic sea ice minima in the satellite record (ie since 1979). The trend over these years 2007 – 2020 is -0.4% per annum. That seems to me to be as close to flat as makes no difference, but you may differ.
Figures for annual minima are:
Year | m Km2 |
2007 | 4.16 |
2008 | 4.59 |
2009 | 5.12 |
2010 | 4.62 |
2011 | 4.34 |
2012 | 3.39 |
2013 | 5.05 |
2014 | 5.03 |
2015 | 4.43 |
2016 | 4.17 |
2017 | 4.67 |
2018 | 4.66 |
2019 | 4.19 |
2020 | 3.74 |
Here is a graph of these figures alongside graphs for the previous two 14 year periods, back to 1979.
![](https://ashleymooney.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Arctic-Sea-Ice-Trends-2020.jpg)
Sadly we do not have comparable data on Arctic Sea Ice minima around 1945, 1930, 1910, the Medieval Warm Period, or the Roman Warm Period.