Well, that’s embarrassing for the AGW crowd. This from Principia Scientific International:
It is often claimed that modern day sea ice changes are “unprecedented”, alarming, and well outside the range of natural variability.
Yet scientists are increasingly finding that biomarker proxies used to reconstruct both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice conditions since the Early Holocene reveal that today’s sea ice changes are not only not unusual, there is more extensive Arctic and Antarctic sea ice during recent decades than there has been for nearly all of the last 10,000 years.
Image Source: Jones Et Al., 2016
Image Source: Fan Et Al., 2014