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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43735 wrote:
<<Satellites have continually monitored polar sea ice since 1979, and since the turn of the twenty-first century, Arctic sea ice has declined relative to its 1979–2000 mean extent. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), sea ice extent at the most recent summer minimum (September 2009) and winter maximum (March 2010) was greater than it had been in the most recent years, but this short-term gain did not yet indicate a reversal of the long-term decline.>>
