We had a big day of gardening and chores inn Yoakum today, and got a lot done. We'll head back to Austin tomorrow. We are in NW Austin , near Hwy 183 and McNeil Rd. We have the modest little Austin garden, but I get to look at it through a sliding glass door as I sit with the laptop.
Haha that’s awesome, sweet friend! I know (sort of) where that is and it’s wonderful to co-create with God through gardening. You’re a WONDERFUL Substack author and I’m so grateful to connect with you here.
Limits to Growth is a stupid as it's funders the Club of Rome. One human being can change everything. The limit is human imagination and human desire to serve humanity with compassion.
Naturally the endless waste of resources to make money for a few has limits. If a decision is made to ignore other ideas and promote more waste (let us simply look at DOD resources waste-human and otherwise as a very tiny example)then yes of course to preserve and increase the status and wealth of a few the many must be degraded and culled as swiftly as politically tolerable. If other choices are presented there then is abundance. To me, since say 16, the embrace and triumph of the irrational by the best and brightest is obvious. Sharing is not what rich do. In the kindness of a charity a penny is as good as a Pound.
As to electoral politics, can a President uproot a corrupt and criminal system? Surely not. At best they find aspects of the criminal system they can redirect from the most harm to less than that and boldly claim credit for Salvation. I am afraid it is up to us. Not a political animal. https://stegiel.substack.com/p/civilizational-restructuring-and?sd=pf
Well, The Limits To Growth projections are not "stupid", because it was a serious work of systems analysis (not economics), and it is tracking quite well.
I agree with your values regarding greed and waste, and humanity might make some difference in such projections.
It was always stated that the "business as usual" projections could be changed in various ways by concerted societal changes. Some of those are graphed in the 2021 updat link.
The biggest difference that one person would be able to make would be to kill some significant portion of the humans on earth. It's the low-hanging-fruit.
I think the owners are doing it. I'm opposed to that simple solution.
I agree about the politics in the US and much of the world being corrupt, and that it would have to change for an honest man (or woman) to be elected President and survive. Bobby Kennedy is a canary in that coal mine. If he proceeds in the Democratic primaries, the corruption in that partywill have been defeated, otherwise he will be taken out in South Carolina, per the current DNC schedule change to make that the first primary.
How could that happen? A military coup? A palace/political coup? A combination?
There are factions, and the US has been without an actually functional chief executive since Cheney, maybe. In times like these a country really needs a competent chief executive, but the oligarchs can't agree to allow it yet.
Like you, I am taking personal responsibility for whatever I can. This may be an important inflection in history about to happen.
Trump was not allowed to actually function. Obama was always owned...
In 1968, an organization was formed known as the Club of Rome led by two misanthropes named Aurelio Peccei and Sir Alexander King. The organization quickly set up branches across the Anglo-Saxon world with members ranging from select ideologues from the political, business, and scientific community who all agreed that society’s best form of governance was a scientific dictatorship. Sir Alexander wrote: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
In order to finance this paradigm shift, the 1001 Trust was founded in 1970 by Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands. Bernhardt (card carrying Nazi and founder of the Bilderberger Group in 1954) had worked alongside his close misanthropic associates Prince Philip Mountbatten, and Sir Julian Huxley to create the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) just a few years earlier. The plan was simple: each of the 1001 founding members simply put $10,000 into the trust which was then directed towards the green paradigm shift. Other prominent 1001 Club members included international royalty, billionaires, and technocratic sociopaths who wanted nothing more than to manage this promised Brave New World as “alphas”. Many of these figures were also members of the Club of Rome, including Canada’s Maurice Strong, who later became Vice President of the WWF under Prince Philip’s presidency. Strong had replaced another WWF Vice President by the name of Louis Mortimer Bloomfield. Bloomfield was another 1001 Club member whom New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovered to be at the heart of the Montreal-based assassination of the anti-Malthusian President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The document which became the bible and blueprint of this new anti-humanist movement that birthed today’s Green New Deal agenda was titled Limits to Growth (1972) and today holds the record as the most widely read book on ecology, having sold 30 million copies published into 32 languages. A recent article celebrating the book’s 40 year anniversary stated “it helped launch modern environmental computer modeling and began our current globally focused environmental debate. After Limits [To Growth], environmentalists, scientists and policy-makers increasingly thought of ecological problems in planetary terms and as dynamically interconnected… It is worth revisiting Limits today because, more than any other book, it introduced the concept of anthropocentric climate change to a mass audience.”
The book itself was the culmination of a two year study undertaken by a team of MIT statisticians under the nominal heading of Jay Forrester and Dennis Meadows. Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez today, these young MIT professors were merely cardboard cut-outs selected to deflect from the higher social engineers managing the show from the top.
The MIT study itself was not even begun in the USA, but rather in Montebellow Quebec in 1971, when Club of Rome-backer Pierre Trudeau allocated tax payer money to begin the project. A network of Rhodes Scholars and Privy Councillors centered around Alexander King, Maurice Strong, Maurice Lamontagne (founder of Environment Canada), Michael Pitfield (Privy Council Clerk and founder of Canada’s CSIS) and Governor General Roland Michener, among others, had presided over that meeting. When the Canadian funds had served their role, the project continued to receive its funding from the Volkswagen Foundation, whose Nazi-supporting past should have made some of the MIT statisticians uncomfortable.
“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.” — Henry Ford
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol No. 7 – World-Wide Wars
❝We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.❞
Henry Ford was an unusually good capitalist. "Fordist Capitalism" was as good a system of political economy at scale as we have seen...
“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.” — Henry Ford
I don' think people should necessarily read too much into RJK Jnr's son having different views to his father. I know what it's like to be born to a father with dogmatic and inflexible views and being someone who disagreed with those views profoundly, I can testify that life isn't pleasant, easy or sometimes even worthwhile if you have to remain within the tight knit family circle.
I would like to fundamentally challenge RFK's son about Russia 'being bullies', threatening him with very serious violence if he claims that the USA is not the biggest bully on earth and has been since 1948. I have no time for those who refuse to face up to unpleasant facts about the country they were born into. 'Patriotism' is not a free pass to condone interdecadal genocide, murder for no better reasons than enriching shareholders of US Corporations.....RFK Jnr's son needs to experience drone bombing in the raw - he'd soon learn how genocidal his country has been and still is....
Careful, he's 6'5" and muscular. Maybe he got some reality, or maybe he was more sheltered than he knew in Ukraine. Mercs couldn't get out and were getting sent to the front lines. Maybe he had lucky timing when he carried that machne gun and ammo. I'm glad for the family that he came back fairly unharmed.
I sought that story out because somebody was presenting that RFK Jr was supportive of the US proxy war in Ukraine, taking some of his son's story quotes out of context.
I expect to see a lot of this, and have already seen some in the previous 2 weeks. The attempts are to discredit him with truth-seekers.
If you’re a Macron protester you’re a potential terrorist....mmmm, 67% of French are protesting and do not agree with his exclusive pro Rotchilds investments and anti French workers, the majority of the population are all terrorists now! Never go to Britain, the crown, the WEF, the Bildebergers and Charles and Macron are brothers in arms.
One should probably nly travel with much thought and care these days. Edgy times. The powerful are feeling insecure, and it does not bring out their better qualities.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
Protocol No. 6 – Take-Over Technique
We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the States on the day after the political smash.
Covid and the Injections are all about exterminating us -- before the global economy collapses and 8 billion predators are left on the streets in the dark - hungry - and angry.
As Mike Tyson likes to say, "Everyone [including the globalists] has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
As much as my experience with formal, regimented directed violence has convinced me that it only serves to take us individually & collectively down a very dark drain, in this case of the DOD/WEFfers I'm open to taking a jab at Mike's experienced "intervention".
"Climate Change", to whatever degree it is true or false, is primarily a control narrative, employed to force our compliance with the decisions of the powerful. "
I also used to toe the carbon thesis line, but during the past several years of my intense interest in regenerative soil practices, I can't recall which source it was, I heard a very educated group explain that carbon as a "player" in climate warming/cooling is a minor one by comparison to the hydrologic cycle. Yes, they said, it is important to be aware of and go with the natural flow - which we do not.
One of the sources remarked that the only reason carbon was chosen as a marker for climate health was that at the time - many decades ago, I believe - they did not have the computer horsepower to even attempt modeling the much more impactful hydrologic cycle.
In any case, we've taken the psychopathic hired gun expert class at their word that it's all about the carbon just as we have about HIV, wars of "necessity", miraculous modern medicine, God is dead, humans are hackable, useless eaters...
I think that if climate is an elephant, living for billions of years, we are blind men of typical lifespan, and should realize that our assumptions on limited data might be missing very important influences that have brought about marked cimate change. Written history includes mini-ice-ages, and whatever killed off the Anasazi, but especially geologic history, catastrophes.
I think "we" are arguing about deck chairs on the Titanic, and I think we are being goaded to argue about deck chairs.
Me too, the soil is having a microbial mass party after our good rains infused with lightning/nitrogen & I don't wanna miss out. Going to get out and play with the microbes, plants, solar downloads. 🌱
Happy, healthy, regenerative Earth Day - every day - to all lovers of life/creation. 💖
Funny graph. It would seem the deaths just go off the chart but the food per capita sinks to new lows. But it say birth rate goes really high!?! I can only assume we are dying faster than we are being born and there is no one to grow the food .
The food per capita going down is what drives down the population in this model.
Insecure times increase human deaths, and seem to make people try to have more children.
I do think that higher death rates and lower birth rates are now apparent, and suspect the COVID vaccines, which have many specific mechanisms in the body to reduce fertility, attack the circulatory system and reproductive systems, while impairing the immune system, including cancer-surveillance.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol No. 10 – Preparing for Power
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the GOYIM see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and all else.❞
Your conclusion that climate change data "does not show progressive warming or loss of polar ice mass" appears to be at odds with this newly-published study:
Melting and refreezing may not reduce ice mass. It is somewhat hard to compare, though NASA has pretty good data on mass, from gravitational analysis. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
The last 5 years in colors aretightly grouped, and a little below the 1981-2010 median ice mass.
They are very similar to 2010-2011 ice mass, except that winter added some more ice in March.
I did look at that link, but they were not discussing ice mass. It is hard to get straight information. Everybody has an axe to grind. I am as much at the mercy of what I can find as anybody.
There has not been progressive warming over the last decade. Ice mass is stable over 5 years, but less than 20 years ago.
I'll say that it is not impressive, though there was a downward trend in polar ice mass between 2000 and 2012 or so.
Great pic of you in the garden. Ours has grown SO much too!
Thank you, Sister. :-)
You’re so welcome! I pray all is well with you and yours there in ATX! We’ll be out there soon to visit our oldest son.
We had a big day of gardening and chores inn Yoakum today, and got a lot done. We'll head back to Austin tomorrow. We are in NW Austin , near Hwy 183 and McNeil Rd. We have the modest little Austin garden, but I get to look at it through a sliding glass door as I sit with the laptop.
Haha that’s awesome, sweet friend! I know (sort of) where that is and it’s wonderful to co-create with God through gardening. You’re a WONDERFUL Substack author and I’m so grateful to connect with you here.
Limits to Growth is a stupid as it's funders the Club of Rome. One human being can change everything. The limit is human imagination and human desire to serve humanity with compassion.
Naturally the endless waste of resources to make money for a few has limits. If a decision is made to ignore other ideas and promote more waste (let us simply look at DOD resources waste-human and otherwise as a very tiny example)then yes of course to preserve and increase the status and wealth of a few the many must be degraded and culled as swiftly as politically tolerable. If other choices are presented there then is abundance. To me, since say 16, the embrace and triumph of the irrational by the best and brightest is obvious. Sharing is not what rich do. In the kindness of a charity a penny is as good as a Pound.
As to electoral politics, can a President uproot a corrupt and criminal system? Surely not. At best they find aspects of the criminal system they can redirect from the most harm to less than that and boldly claim credit for Salvation. I am afraid it is up to us. Not a political animal. https://stegiel.substack.com/p/civilizational-restructuring-and?sd=pf
Well, The Limits To Growth projections are not "stupid", because it was a serious work of systems analysis (not economics), and it is tracking quite well.
Here is the 2021 analysis of the 1972 projections: https://canadiancor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Herrington-Limits-2021.pdf
I agree with your values regarding greed and waste, and humanity might make some difference in such projections.
It was always stated that the "business as usual" projections could be changed in various ways by concerted societal changes. Some of those are graphed in the 2021 updat link.
The biggest difference that one person would be able to make would be to kill some significant portion of the humans on earth. It's the low-hanging-fruit.
I think the owners are doing it. I'm opposed to that simple solution.
I agree about the politics in the US and much of the world being corrupt, and that it would have to change for an honest man (or woman) to be elected President and survive. Bobby Kennedy is a canary in that coal mine. If he proceeds in the Democratic primaries, the corruption in that partywill have been defeated, otherwise he will be taken out in South Carolina, per the current DNC schedule change to make that the first primary.
How could that happen? A military coup? A palace/political coup? A combination?
There are factions, and the US has been without an actually functional chief executive since Cheney, maybe. In times like these a country really needs a competent chief executive, but the oligarchs can't agree to allow it yet.
Like you, I am taking personal responsibility for whatever I can. This may be an important inflection in history about to happen.
Trump was not allowed to actually function. Obama was always owned...
Well. I see the men behind the "science" who had a plan. https://financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-clubs-of-doom-and-the-limits-to-models
And this: https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/31/the-genocidal-roots-of-the-green-new-deal-the-limits-to-growth-and-the-unchaining-of-prometheus/
The Club of Rome and 1001 Nature Trust
In 1968, an organization was formed known as the Club of Rome led by two misanthropes named Aurelio Peccei and Sir Alexander King. The organization quickly set up branches across the Anglo-Saxon world with members ranging from select ideologues from the political, business, and scientific community who all agreed that society’s best form of governance was a scientific dictatorship. Sir Alexander wrote: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
In order to finance this paradigm shift, the 1001 Trust was founded in 1970 by Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands. Bernhardt (card carrying Nazi and founder of the Bilderberger Group in 1954) had worked alongside his close misanthropic associates Prince Philip Mountbatten, and Sir Julian Huxley to create the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) just a few years earlier. The plan was simple: each of the 1001 founding members simply put $10,000 into the trust which was then directed towards the green paradigm shift. Other prominent 1001 Club members included international royalty, billionaires, and technocratic sociopaths who wanted nothing more than to manage this promised Brave New World as “alphas”. Many of these figures were also members of the Club of Rome, including Canada’s Maurice Strong, who later became Vice President of the WWF under Prince Philip’s presidency. Strong had replaced another WWF Vice President by the name of Louis Mortimer Bloomfield. Bloomfield was another 1001 Club member whom New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovered to be at the heart of the Montreal-based assassination of the anti-Malthusian President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The document which became the bible and blueprint of this new anti-humanist movement that birthed today’s Green New Deal agenda was titled Limits to Growth (1972) and today holds the record as the most widely read book on ecology, having sold 30 million copies published into 32 languages. A recent article celebrating the book’s 40 year anniversary stated “it helped launch modern environmental computer modeling and began our current globally focused environmental debate. After Limits [To Growth], environmentalists, scientists and policy-makers increasingly thought of ecological problems in planetary terms and as dynamically interconnected… It is worth revisiting Limits today because, more than any other book, it introduced the concept of anthropocentric climate change to a mass audience.”
The book itself was the culmination of a two year study undertaken by a team of MIT statisticians under the nominal heading of Jay Forrester and Dennis Meadows. Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez today, these young MIT professors were merely cardboard cut-outs selected to deflect from the higher social engineers managing the show from the top.
The MIT study itself was not even begun in the USA, but rather in Montebellow Quebec in 1971, when Club of Rome-backer Pierre Trudeau allocated tax payer money to begin the project. A network of Rhodes Scholars and Privy Councillors centered around Alexander King, Maurice Strong, Maurice Lamontagne (founder of Environment Canada), Michael Pitfield (Privy Council Clerk and founder of Canada’s CSIS) and Governor General Roland Michener, among others, had presided over that meeting. When the Canadian funds had served their role, the project continued to receive its funding from the Volkswagen Foundation, whose Nazi-supporting past should have made some of the MIT statisticians uncomfortable.
“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.” — Henry Ford
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol No. 7 – World-Wide Wars
❝We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.❞
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-no-7-world-wide-wars
Henry Ford was an unusually good capitalist. "Fordist Capitalism" was as good a system of political economy at scale as we have seen...
“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.” — Henry Ford
Boom! Thanks Stegiel!
I don' think people should necessarily read too much into RJK Jnr's son having different views to his father. I know what it's like to be born to a father with dogmatic and inflexible views and being someone who disagreed with those views profoundly, I can testify that life isn't pleasant, easy or sometimes even worthwhile if you have to remain within the tight knit family circle.
I would like to fundamentally challenge RFK's son about Russia 'being bullies', threatening him with very serious violence if he claims that the USA is not the biggest bully on earth and has been since 1948. I have no time for those who refuse to face up to unpleasant facts about the country they were born into. 'Patriotism' is not a free pass to condone interdecadal genocide, murder for no better reasons than enriching shareholders of US Corporations.....RFK Jnr's son needs to experience drone bombing in the raw - he'd soon learn how genocidal his country has been and still is....
Careful, he's 6'5" and muscular. Maybe he got some reality, or maybe he was more sheltered than he knew in Ukraine. Mercs couldn't get out and were getting sent to the front lines. Maybe he had lucky timing when he carried that machne gun and ammo. I'm glad for the family that he came back fairly unharmed.
I sought that story out because somebody was presenting that RFK Jr was supportive of the US proxy war in Ukraine, taking some of his son's story quotes out of context.
I expect to see a lot of this, and have already seen some in the previous 2 weeks. The attempts are to discredit him with truth-seekers.
If you’re a Macron protester you’re a potential terrorist....mmmm, 67% of French are protesting and do not agree with his exclusive pro Rotchilds investments and anti French workers, the majority of the population are all terrorists now! Never go to Britain, the crown, the WEF, the Bildebergers and Charles and Macron are brothers in arms.
One should probably nly travel with much thought and care these days. Edgy times. The powerful are feeling insecure, and it does not bring out their better qualities.
Do you mean that there was a time that they had good or better qualities?
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION
Protocol No. 6 – Take-Over Technique
We shall soon begin to establish huge monopolies, reservoirs of colossal riches, upon which even large fortunes of the GOYIM will depend to such an extent that they will go to the bottom together with the credit of the States on the day after the political smash.
https://substack.com/profile/76099408-clarence-wilhelm-spangle/note/c-14577013
Covid and the Injections are all about exterminating us -- before the global economy collapses and 8 billion predators are left on the streets in the dark - hungry - and angry.
Details here https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Slooow extermination, though, so the system can be mainitained while increasing deaths and decreasing births, a Goldilocks extermination...
I think reality is more complex than that, though, and the clever owners will end up having misjudged a few things.
As Mike Tyson likes to say, "Everyone [including the globalists] has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
As much as my experience with formal, regimented directed violence has convinced me that it only serves to take us individually & collectively down a very dark drain, in this case of the DOD/WEFfers I'm open to taking a jab at Mike's experienced "intervention".
"Climate Change", to whatever degree it is true or false, is primarily a control narrative, employed to force our compliance with the decisions of the powerful. "
I also used to toe the carbon thesis line, but during the past several years of my intense interest in regenerative soil practices, I can't recall which source it was, I heard a very educated group explain that carbon as a "player" in climate warming/cooling is a minor one by comparison to the hydrologic cycle. Yes, they said, it is important to be aware of and go with the natural flow - which we do not.
One of the sources remarked that the only reason carbon was chosen as a marker for climate health was that at the time - many decades ago, I believe - they did not have the computer horsepower to even attempt modeling the much more impactful hydrologic cycle.
In any case, we've taken the psychopathic hired gun expert class at their word that it's all about the carbon just as we have about HIV, wars of "necessity", miraculous modern medicine, God is dead, humans are hackable, useless eaters...
I think that if climate is an elephant, living for billions of years, we are blind men of typical lifespan, and should realize that our assumptions on limited data might be missing very important influences that have brought about marked cimate change. Written history includes mini-ice-ages, and whatever killed off the Anasazi, but especially geologic history, catastrophes.
I think "we" are arguing about deck chairs on the Titanic, and I think we are being goaded to argue about deck chairs.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ *
* Official/unofficial emoticon of the Blind Examiners of Big Elephants Association
Good emoticon. Gotta go out and garden
Me too, the soil is having a microbial mass party after our good rains infused with lightning/nitrogen & I don't wanna miss out. Going to get out and play with the microbes, plants, solar downloads. 🌱
Happy, healthy, regenerative Earth Day - every day - to all lovers of life/creation. 💖
NRFK*
* Motto of the Blind Examiners of Big Elephants Association
(Nobody Really Effin' Knows)
Funny graph. It would seem the deaths just go off the chart but the food per capita sinks to new lows. But it say birth rate goes really high!?! I can only assume we are dying faster than we are being born and there is no one to grow the food .
It seems that when deaths go up, births follow desperately. This model was observational in human societies, not theoretical per se.
Yes but it looks like food per capita stays low. If there’s much less people, shouldn’t food per capita go up?
The food per capita going down is what drives down the population in this model.
Insecure times increase human deaths, and seem to make people try to have more children.
I do think that higher death rates and lower birth rates are now apparent, and suspect the COVID vaccines, which have many specific mechanisms in the body to reduce fertility, attack the circulatory system and reproductive systems, while impairing the immune system, including cancer-surveillance.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol No. 10 – Preparing for Power
❝. . . utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture, by starvation, by inoculation of diseases, by want, so that the GOYIM see no other issue than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and all else.❞
http://www.renegadetribune.com/protocols-of-zion-protocol-x-preparing-for-power/
Your conclusion that climate change data "does not show progressive warming or loss of polar ice mass" appears to be at odds with this newly-published study:
https://scitechdaily.com/decade-of-the-worst-polar-ice-sheet-melting-shatters-records/
Melting and refreezing may not reduce ice mass. It is somewhat hard to compare, though NASA has pretty good data on mass, from gravitational analysis. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
The last 5 years in colors aretightly grouped, and a little below the 1981-2010 median ice mass.
They are very similar to 2010-2011 ice mass, except that winter added some more ice in March.
I did look at that link, but they were not discussing ice mass. It is hard to get straight information. Everybody has an axe to grind. I am as much at the mercy of what I can find as anybody.
There has not been progressive warming over the last decade. Ice mass is stable over 5 years, but less than 20 years ago.
I'll say that it is not impressive, though there was a downward trend in polar ice mass between 2000 and 2012 or so.