Goddard moves on to a graph, apparently from the University of Illinois (no cite, but it looks real)
showing global sea ice area from 1979 to the present.
Not exact matches
The extent of
global sea ice coverage reached its smallest
area ever recorded in 2016, new data
show.
Regarding the «
global ice at 1980 levels», here is the canned response we wrote in rebuttal to the astonishingly twisted piece in Daily Tech: What the graph
shows is that the
global sea ice area for early January 2009 is on the long term average (zero anomaly).