It may be a tiny bip, but the ice extent anomaly was - 2 million square feet in mid 2011 and is now + 183,000 square feet. Its a rapid intensification of arctic and antarctic ice. It will be interesting to see what the anomaly will be in the next 6 months. I predict it will hover around normal for a long time. In any event, sea ice has been relatively constant since we started measuring it. This is the real story!