A couple of inconvenient facts in another alarmist article from Seth Borenstein

From the AP article here:

Last summer, Arctic ice shrank to an area that was 27 percent smaller than the previous record. This winter, it recovered to a maximum of 5.8 million square miles, up 4 percent and the most since 2003, NASA ice scientist Josefino Comiso said. It is still a bit below the long-term average level for this time of year.
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At the South Pole, in Antarctica, sea ice seems stable, even slightly above normal, the scientists reported. However, ice levels in Antarctica always are quite different from the Arctic and aren't as connected to the world's weather.

Although the article claims that the Arctic ice is "very thin", note that the article linked here says that Arctic sea ice thickness slightly increased from the mid-1990s to at least 2003.