"This year’s minimum extent, based on a 5-day average, appears to have been set on September 10. It is 1.21 million square kilometers (467,000 square miles) above the satellite-era record minimum extent of 3.39 million square kilometers (1.31 million square miles), which occurred on September 17, 2012 (Figure 1b). It is also 1.62 million square kilometers (625,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average minimum extent, which is equivalent to about the loss in size of Alaska.

In the 47-year-satellite record, the 19 lowest minimums have all occurred in the last 19 years.

The overall, downward trend in the minimum extent from 1979 to 2025 is 12.1 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average. From the linear trend, the loss of sea ice is about 74,000 square kilometers (29,000 square miles) per year, equivalent to losing the state of South Dakota or the country of Austria annually.

This overall trend should be viewed with the caveat that there has been no significant downward trend in September minimum extents over the past two decades. Causes for this flattening trend are a matter of active debate in the Arctic science community. However, all years after 2006, from 2007 to 2025, have still had a lower minimum extent than all the previous yea Wadhams?in the record from 1979 to 2006."

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analyses/2025-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-squeezes-te...

But it hasn't disappeared. Where is Al Gore when you need him? Wadhams? Maslowski?