KTC,
I don't know where 'they' got their data from . . .
But, between those global warming 'researchers' who
got stuck in the ice down in Antarctica . . and
this site :
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-is-antarcticas-sea-ice-growing-as-temperatures-rise-180947775/?no-ist
This past September, at the end of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter, the extent of Antarctica’s sea ice reached 19.51 million square kilometers, breaking a 35-year record that dated back to the start of data being collected in 1978. (In comparison, from 1981 to 2010, the average extent on the same date was just 18.5 million square miles.)
>>>>
Ya need to learn to ask . . who's lying? And, Why?
Zim.

Mad Poet Strikes Again.