It probably would be, but maybe I’m reading these wrong, the purple has declined significantly on those images, that would show a change in the ice.
And, of course I just glanced at them.
I am just one of those people who trusts nothing, and questions everything out of the Ministry of Propaganda (ie anything to do with the environment, climate or the EPA), and their branch that pushes such agenda (ie any of the federally funded universities that deals with climate).
If Al Gore and his ilk came out and said the sky was blue, I swear, I would go outside and look, and if it was indeed blue, I would head directly to an optometrist and get my eyes checked.
That sure isn't what I see. I see more open water around the perimeter of the ice cap but the pink and purple, the thickest ice, appears to encompass more square miles in the 2011 pic than the 1979 pic. A lot more.