Not only is the ice melting, Booby, the permafrost is thawing out.

Here is the flaws with your graph. You cannot simply just search up and utilise one graph from one university. The data needs to be examined in conjunction with others. When you ask for someones opinion you don't just ask one person, without the expectation of bias. Simply the data shows over a year the ice has increased but the trend line over a longer period of time disproves what could be denoted as an outlier.

2016 was a major El Nino, 2017 was ENSO neutral but did not suffer a huge drop in temperatures when the El Nino ended.

But the 2017/2018 Arctic winter was so warm there was a lot of icemelt.

Beast from the East was Arctic air pushed out of the Arctic by warm air pushing in—a trend that seems to be developing in Arctic winters. It may not happen next year although the trend got a boost this last NH winter.

Think it's been a hot April? You're absolutely right
Francesca Mcmackin
by Francesca Mcmackin
16th Apr 2018 10:00 AM

IT MAY be mid-April but it will feel more like mid-summer on the Sunshine Coast today and tomorrow, as temperatures approach historic records.

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster David Crock said the Sunshine Coast Airport reached 31.4C yesterday, just 2.1C from breaking recent April weather records for the data-gathering site, which was set on April 4, 2006 at 33.5C.

The historic April maximum temperature record for the area is 34.4C, recorded in 1938.

Yesterday's temperature even beat February's hottest day at the site of 31.5C.

After Sunday, Saturday's maximum of 29.3C and Friday's 28.8C rounded out the top three hottest days of April so far this year.

Mr Crock said a westerly air stream and high humidity had been driving temperatures up, and the hotter-than-usual weather would continue through Tuesday.

"Today and tomorrow it will be 4-5C above average, particularly inland away from the sea breezes,” he said.

Mr Crock described April as a "cut-off month” when the summer warmth would usually give way to the first cool changes or cold snaps of the year, but said there was no sign of dramatic changes in temperature for at least the next 10 days.

Tuesday is forecast to reach 30C in Maroochydore, while minimum temperatures for the coming days will remain between 19-21C.

This morning's early fog gave way to sunny skies that will likely continue until Wednesday, when forecasters have predicted a 60 per cent chance of showers.

A trend that seems to be establishing this century.

Is one of the 'others' you refer to David Debyne?

Abstract

Grounding lines are a key indicator of ice-sheet instability, because changes in their position reflect imbalance with the surrounding ocean and affect the flow of inland ice. Although the grounding lines of several Antarctic glaciers have retreated rapidly due to ocean-driven melting, records are too scarce to assess the scale of the imbalance. Here, we combine satellite altimeter observations of ice-elevation change and measurements of ice geometry to track grounding-line movement around the entire continent, tripling the coverage of previous surveys. Between 2010 and 2016, 22%, 3% and 10% of surveyed grounding lines in West Antarctica, East Antarctica and at the Antarctic Peninsula retreated at rates faster than 25 m yr−1 (the typical pace since the Last Glacial Maximum) and the continent has lost 1,463 km2 ± 791 km2 of grounded-ice area. Although by far the fastest rates of retreat occurred in the Amundsen Sea sector, we show that the Pine Island Glacier grounding line has stabilized, probably as a consequence of abated ocean forcing. On average, Antarctica’s fast-flowing ice streams retreat by 110 metres per metre of ice thinning.