Sharper00 says:
“Of course. Simultaneously we don’t know enough about the past to say anything odd is happening yet the past is certain enough to say nothing odd is happening.”
What do we know about the Arctic ice. It has been greater, it has been less. We are not at the top or the bottom of whatever cycles are in play. And those cycles have played out over and over without the help of man. So we make some observations that are consistent with what we know, and you choose to call it odd. How odd.