Got to remind you here OldieRocks, everyone likes to PRETEND there was no satellite tally of Arctic Sea Ice before 1979..
No, only deniers pretend that, because it allows them to lie and claim ice was lower before the satellite era. For example, I've posted this here before.
TC - Abstract - A simple approach to providing a more consistent Arctic sea ice extent time series from the 1950s to present
All the deniers have seen that before, yet they pretend it doesn't exist, because it contradicts their confirmation bias. Instead of showing all the data, they deliberately cherrypick a much shorter piece that confirms their confirmation bias, as Flac just did. Essentially, that old graph that they love just grabs the bit from the shaded box.
It's kinda WILLFULLY dishonest to start data from relative PEAKS, when you have this in your back pocket. Isn't it???? Need an answer to that question bud..
It's obviously willfully dishonest to cherrypick data to avoid showing the higher ice levels prior to 1979, as Flac did. By his own standards, he needs to answer the question of why he tried to deceive us. But if past patterns hold, he won't offer an explanation. Instead, he'll snarl out some insults to cover his panicked retreat. And then, some months later, he'll post the same debunked nonsense again, even though he knows how deceptive it is.
The data goes back even farther. If we look at this study, we see how Arctic sea ice was definitely _increasing_ from 1935 - 1970. That destroys Flac's claim that long term Arctic sea ice levels were decreasing before the global warming era. Nope, it was the exact opposite, which is what you usually discover when you examine any of Flac's claims.
A new time series of September Arctic sea ice extent: 1935-2014