Arctic sea ice up 60%?

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As far as I am aware Goddard's claim to fame is finding some statistical errors in a small section of U.S. temperature records almost a decade ago, also as far as I am aware he has found nothing else, this would seem to be confirmed by the silence when you ask deniers to post all the claimed errors he is supposed to have found.
He has posted many things on the Watts blog (really scientific, that is) as to why twitter and not a real scientific journals, sadly the answer is pretty obvious.
2013 certainly has seen sea ice extent increase over the 2012 level, a level that has become the new record low.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/...igure2.png
As is pretty obvious from the dotted line, but also obvious is that 2013 does not stand out much from the several years before 2012 and all are well below the long term average.
A better title for the question might have been 'Godard's fibs about Arctic sea ice up 60%'
The NSIDC graph shows the last 6 years it shows no great recovery, in fact it shows the levels of 2013 below those of 2009 for most of the period covered so there goes the 4 year high, now it's a 3 year high. It's interesting how deniers keep telling us we can't use short term data to make estimates (even though we don't) yet they then try to use just a couple of years to make claims about what sea ice is doing, while trying very hard to ignore the 35 year record.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/...gure31.png