re: Myth of arctic meltdown: Satellite images show summer ice cap growing

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These reveal that – while the long-term trend still shows a decline – last Monday, August 25, the area of the Arctic Ocean with at least 15 per cent ice cover was 5.62 million square kilometres.

This was the highest level recorded on that date since 2006 (see graph, right), and represents an increase of 1.71 million square kilometres over the past two years – an impressive 43 per cent.

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So, the long-term trend still shows a decline, and the last five monthly averages show a decline, but if you compare the results on a curiously specific date (which I am sure was not cherry-picked to match the minimum extent date of a previous year, the Mail would never do anything like that), and put your thumb just so to obscure the long-term trend, it's recovering.