I didn't read the parent's comment as you did. To me it looked like someone just trying to get a handle on the relative amounts and variability. They provided some relevant data and appeared open-minded.

Your response to that added little to the discussion. You might have selected the parts of the article that answered those questions, but instead opted to shut down further discussion on a valid question. Which, may or may not be addressed in the sources.

So we should have 100% faith in what we're being told in the article? If the author was trying to deceive then they wouldn't cite data that provided contradiction. Seems more like a religious approach than a logical one. There are papers, that were well cited, claiming there would be no sea ice by 2010, which never occurred.