Arctic Ice is Not “Rapidly Vanishing” – Study Finds Similar Trends Over At Least 200 Years

Assessment: When will they ever learn, when will they ev-er learn … Whisper it quietly, but Arctic ice is making a comeback. The coverage is now very close to the 1991-2020 average, well above a 2012 low point and higher than 2020. According to the latest report from Copernicus, the EU’s Earth observation programme, the 2021 March sea ice extent was just 3% below the 30 year average. March is the annual maximum extent of sea ice