[JustDoItAlways]

Some of the different research groups at NASA are total flaming global warmers while other groups are more objective scientists. They hide their institute's bias behind the banner "NASA". This group is one of those.

Here is the actual sea ice extent by day going back to 1978. It goes up and down with the seasons (not unexpectedly) but it also shows the summer minimum (september) has been relatively stable for the past 16 years. 1999 was the lowest year.

[Reeses]

Scientists from the US space agency used satellite images to analyze six annual cycles of Arctic sea ice from 2000 to 2006.

The satellite that takes these images is probably in a polar orbit and sees the Antarctic just as well. Why no second opinion from the south pole to confirm thinning ice? I bet because it shows a thickening. Had they been pushing global cooling they would have selected to show Antarctica data instead.