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The headline is not technically correct.
“Right now it’s serious. It’s really bad. If you look at the overall area of the sea ice, the area is almost one million square kilometres less than the previous lowest which was in 1986.”
It suggests that the ice had receded to a degree not seen since 1986, when in fact it’s quite a lot worse.
Maybe my English comprehension is faulty, but I’ve always interpreted “lowest since X” to mean the current level is at least as low as it was in X…