[saganite]

Not according to this chart.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png

[Mr. Lucky]

Your chart conveniently leaves out any consideration of sea ice coverage during the past decade in determining the average.

[mc5cents]

From the NSIDC site: "Through their research, our scientists help further understanding of the many changes that our planet is undergoing."

That or planet is undergoing. Sounds like an agenda being undertaken there. An objective scientist would have better phrased it, "that our planet undergoes" rather than IS undergoing. After all, the planet has undergone and is undergoing changes since the big bang. Just MHO.

[Bulwinkle]

Like like you post was ‘Arctic ‘ sea ice, not global sea ice.

Global Sea Ice
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

[Bulwinkle]

Like like you post was ‘Arctic ‘ sea ice, not global sea ice.

Global Sea Ice
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

[brookwood]

There are 2 measures, “area” and “extent”. The “extent” is the portion where the sea ice is 15% or greater. The “area” is just the portion which is 100% covered. Also there are measurements from different groups, U. of Illinois, NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center)and the Danish Meterological Institute (which is above average now). Plus the graph in your link is just the Arctic - because the Antarctic is above normal it brings the GLOBAL area above normal.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg