As the saying goes: if you torture data enough, it'll tell you anything you want.
If you put the brakes on the spin cycle, here's what you're left with:
Ice extent for March 2014 is greater than it was for at least 4 other recent years. It's too early to tell whether this is the beginning of an upward trend; but, it is safe to say that an apparent downward trend has been put in serious doubt. We can't determine a trend from the annual data; but, if we were to take the average over an arbitrarily chosen time period and fudge the data by mixing decades with years, we could force the data to confess to a decline.
Some one throw some water on these warming fools...I’m melting, I’m melting!