Serreze: Arctic is "continuing down in a death spiral. Every bit of evidence we have says the ice is thinning."

UPDATE:  National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) director Mark Serreze slammed the anti-science disinformers yesterday:

There are claims coming from some communities that the Arctic sea ice is recovering, is getting thicker again. That's simply not the case.  It's continuing down in a death spiral.

Every bit of evidence we have says the ice is thinning.  That means there's less energy needed to melt it out than there used to be.

Certainly the latest analysis from the  Polar Science Center ...