> It's intriguing what data is considered to be the most title-worthy in cases like this.

I would have taken the title from this quote:

> In the Antarctic, sea ice extent is now well above average and within the range of the ten largest ice extents on record, underscoring its high year-to-year variability. The annual maximum for Antarctic sea ice typically occurs in late September or early October.

> Unlike the order statistics in the intro/title, this figure is quite irrefutable.

Polar ice waxes and wanes as the seasons progress. By some accounts summer 2020 had record temperatures in the northern hemisphere, but I think something else is going on too.

Here's a report of record cold in Australia in August 2020:

https://watchers.news/2020/08/07/tasmania-record-cold/

And a report from New Zealand from June 2020:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/121823020/wint...

I think climate is more complicated than the anthropogenic catastrophists would have us believe.