The headline - “Arctic Sea Ice Highest Since 2014” - is misleading.
The graph in the link shows the area of ocean with at least 15% Arctic sea ice in units of area (millions of square kilometers). However, the Arctic sea ice extent is still less than the median value for 1981-2010.
A better headline would have been “Arctic Sea Ice Covers More Ocean Since 2014, but Still Less than the 1981-2010 Median”.
“A better headline would have been “Arctic Sea Ice Covers More Ocean Since 2014, but Still Less than the 1981-2010 Median”.
Interestingly, NSIDC shows the 1981-2010 median which ignores 30 percent of the historical record. The warmists constantly cherry pick their data, I’m playing by their rules. The fact that the artic has more ice than any of the last 12 years doesn’t fit their narrative. Sea ice is higher than 2007, which is when Gore said it would be ice-free by 2016. 2 other issues are the magnitude of the decline, which from the graph you can see is only about 10 percent in the winter, and why anyone cares about friggin sea ice enogh to destroy their economy and lanscape with 10,000 600 foot tall wind turbines that look like crap and ruin the view across 1000 miles of Europe, so that China and India can build 400 coal power plants and global CO2 emission continue to grow at the same rate. So double the electricity price in the US so India and China can have air conditioning, and to preserve ice (in theory) that no one will ever see. https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph