The melting of the arctic sea ice is one of the strongest evidences for global warming / climate change, especially considering last year's dramatic new record

The melting of the arctic sea ice is one of the strongest evidences for global warming / climate change, especially considering last year's dramatic new record low. However, if we're going to focus on the newsworthiness of this particular bit of information, there's some other important context that is often left out by those wishing to dramatize the northern melt as much as possible. 1) The current northern ice levels, regardless of how big the lake is at the North pole, are currently better than the three lowest years on record, though still historically low[1]. So you could be equally as truthful and informative as this generally uninformative article, just with an opposite spin, saying that the whole Arctic ocean's surface ice is at a three-year high! 2) The Antarctic sea ice has been above the historical average for over a year.[2] [1] http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm [2] http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.antarctic.png http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent...