Arctic sea ice area and volume drop near record lows - WattsUpWithThat breaks its own record for fastest overturning of a prediction by reality

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, click to enlarge) has a widely used plot of sea ice area.

The notion that the Arctic sea ice was somehow on a long-term recovery trend based on a short-term two-dimensional analysis (i.e. sea ice area or extent just over the last 2 years) — had no basis in fact.  That goes double (triple?) when you look at three dimensions (i.e. volume) over a multi-year period, as I'll discuss below.

But first, Anthony Watts and Steven Goddard have published...