Is the University of Washington being taken over by "skeptics" with a political agenda?

I hope that your question is tongue in cheek. However, I am sure that the denialists will spin this to point out that "alarmunists" can not figure out what the decadal trend in Arctic sea ice volume is. At least those denialists who are not so dumb that they only know how to make vague statements about how the stolen emails disprove global warming.