Or does the data fail to meet your stringent ideological requirements?

http://neven1.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f03a1e37970b01b8d27ef904970c-800wi

Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS)

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/

Arctic sea ice volume reached its annual maximum for 2017. The volume maximum occurs one month later than the extent maximum because some areas continue to thicken while the extent begins to recede. Arctic sea ice volume through April 2017 continued substantially below prior years.April 2017 sea ice volume was 20,600 km3 , 1800 km3 below the previous record from April in 2011. The April growth was equivalent to previous years with about 1000 km3 gained during April. The sea ice volume results of anomalously high temperatures throughout the Arctic for November through January discussed here and here. April volume was 37% below the maximum April ice volume in 1979, 25% below the 1979-2016 mean, and more than 1.7 standard deviations below the long term trend line. April sea ice volume follows the overall long term trend (Fig 3) but the departure from the long trend is the second largest in the record. Similar departures occurred in 2011 and 2007. The departure from the long term trend is only surpassed by 1982.