With Arctic ice having reached its Maximum for 2024, it is time for the annual update. My figures come from NSIDC https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.
In the last nineteen (19) years only four years had higher maximums.
The last nineteen (19) years show the lowest annual arctic sea ice maximum in the satellite record (ie since 1979). However, the trend over the last nineteen years 2006 – 2024 is -0.11% per annum. If this trend continues arctic sea ice will decline by 0.11% in the next century. 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 2024 | 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 15.01 |
Here is a graph of these figures:
