The animation below alternates between current sea ice extent in green, and 1971 end of summer extent in white. Reggie better fire up his blowtorch.
Arctic sea ice extent is declining very slowly, and is above the 10 year average.
Our top government scientists don’t want you to know about the low extent before 1979, so they simply erase it.
ftp://ftp.oar.noaa.gov/arctic/documents/ArcticReportCard_full_report2016.pdf
