If someone claims Arctic Sea Ice is in a death spiral, you can mention that right now 2013 is the 7th lowest and not the lowest.
And that 2013 has even more ice than 1989 at this point in the year.
Lowest 7 = 2006 2004 2011 2007 1989 2005 2013
And that Extent is within one standard deviation of the 1981 – 2010 mean. And only 340,000 sq km below the mean which is about 2.5%.
sunshine hours 
Er, heads up a typo –
“If someone claims Arctic Sea Ice is in a death spiral, you can mention that right now 2013 is the 7th lowest and not the lowest.”
Italicized word maybe – should read ‘highest’.
Arctic sea ice fluctuates and has fluctuated annually, over decades, centuries and millennia – it is significant of nothing much – why don’t the alarmists ever talk about the real ice monster down in the Austral polar region – where sea ice is running at a high?
Why does ice melt in the Arctic equal MM global warming and contrarily – growing sea ice in the Antarctic – also equals MM global warming – you cannot argue it both ways but then alarmism is cognitively dissonant.
Remember that last year’s minimum ice coverage was an all-time record low. Then, look at your graph: this year’s line is clearly even further below last year’s line. How is this proof that the ice extent is recovering? (There’s a whole lot of year left, so scientists don’t know what the final number will be this year, but I thought I’d point it out.)
I think the cyclone had more to do with the record low than climate “scientists” are willing to admit.
https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/great-arctic-cyclone-2012-caused-the-record-low/