In message , Lawrence
Jenkins writes
Okay the Catlin expedition, Al Gore, Paul Garvey, Alastair, the IPCC and so
on, have all told us that the Arctic ice was in terminal decline. Why even
Mark Serreze http://nsidc.org/research/bios/serreze.html -and no that is
not a hippy pony tail and he has no political view on AGW - has told us that
the ice was'is in peril due to the awful things that humans have done so
that we can communicate by the internet.

But please someone help me out he shouldn't this ice be dissapearing?
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/.../ice-area-and-
extent-in-arctic/?searchterm=sea%20ice%20areas

and in this one the ice is still expanding past its average peakwhen a
decline should have started.

You'll have to explain how you interpret that diagram to reach that
conclusion.

Please someone explain this to me as I'm confused


By now you should know that interannual variation is superimposed on the
secular trend, and a monotonic year to year decrease is not expected.
Similarly interannual variability (weather) results in variations in the
date of the peak.

You might also observe that the retreat of the ice is more prominent
during the summer months than the winter months.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley