With Arctic ice having reached its Maximum for 2023, it is time for the annual update. My figures come from NSIDC https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.
2023 is the fifth lowest on record. That is to say that four years had LOWER winter sea ice maxima that this year.
The last eighteen (18) years show the lowest annual arctic sea ice maximum in the satellite record (ie since 1979). However, the trend over the last sixteen years 2006 – 2023 is -0.15% per annum. That seems to me to be as close to flat as makes no difference.
With the correct use of the english language present tense, the world IS not warming.
Figures for annual annual arctic ice sheet minima are:
| Year | m Km2 |
| 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2109 2020 2021 2022 2023 | 14.78 14.85 15.35 15.20 15.35 14.70 15.31 15.20 15.01 14.55 14.57 14.45 14.50 14.90 15.07 14.87 14.93 14.62 |
Here is a graph of these figures:
