Quote Originally Posted by Vuk View Post
Not really. It shows a medium term trend of decreased ice (It really shows no long term trends as the earliest data is from the 1980's), but the newest data (2013) shows significantly more ice than the data set before it. Only time can tell if this will develop into a trend or not, but at least in the short term it shows a significant increase in arctic ice.
Even the the 2013 increase is below the previous decades average all we can say for sure is that 2012 etc were extremes.