Arctic ocean ice coverage in summer dips to 24

From 50 to 27 in 2007 dipping further to 24 this summer in Arctic - this is the situation of ice bed formation area figures in summer.
Does it indicate a drastic change in nature all across the globe?
Arctic summer icepack shrinks to record low - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) http://tinyurl.com/c96sonv shared via www.newshog.com