Well..... that's because you are going by actual sat photos, and not by computer models.
In the VIRTUAL WORLD of ATMOSPHERIC modeling, the world is getting hotter, the icecaps are melting, and all the nerds (scientists) have girlfriends that look like this-
*I dont see the arctic diminishing
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm*
I agree. It probably isn’t.
The AGW promoters love to talk about the Arctic, but ignore the large gains in the Antarctic.
I usually don’t argue with them about the Arctic too much because anything that happens there is a small fraction of what is going on down South.
If it’s “global” it seems like you have to include the other part of the globe. The AGW believer don’t see it that way.