2011 Avg. Arctic Temps 4.1F Above 1951-80 Historic Average; Sea Ice Volume Lowest On Record

[guardian]

8. It was cooler in the arctic during that period too

But none of the doomers will acknowledge that either because it doesn't fit your earth is doomed fantasy.

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_walsh.html
"... including a cooling of the Arctic from the 1940s to the 1960s. "



http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Scientists_Counter_Latest_Arctic.pdf
"...a negative gradient (cooling — many Fairbanksans
remember the very cold winters in the 1960s) from 1940 to 1975"

http://carc.org/pubs/v15no5/2.htm
"... Over the period of instrumental or historic record, the northern hemisphere has experienced three distinct phases: a general warming trend from the 1880s until the 1940s, a period of cooling until the mid 1960s, .... The Canadian Arctic has reflected a similar pattern"


There are other references if you want to find them.