No it hasnt
(response from a libinlaw when this fact was brought up)
It's often a losing battle, but sometimes printing out actual data from not a “right wing” site helps...
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png
Note that their first response will to associate your data with Fox News/Koch brothers/Big Business - check your source first...:^)
Something like that happened...
I asked how many sources she needed to be convinced that the polar caps were growing, and the response was “one good one” (meaning something left wing).
So, LA Times, here I come.
Basically, the article in the LA Times said
“the growth of antarctic ice will have to be explained within the accepted fact that the earth is warming”.
Basically, global warming is a “given”, and all data must be interpreted as supporting that given.