Arctic Sea Ice 2024 Maximum

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: