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DAAAAAAAAAAYUM! (Original Post)
XemaSab
May 2013
OP
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)1. Please add some indication about subject, not just a link.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. big crack
hatrack
(59,574 posts)3. Wow . . . and it's, uh, May 14th?
What is that, about an 800-mile crack, and about 20 miles across in spots?
We.
Are.
So.
Fucked.
OnlinePoker
(5,716 posts)4. A little perspective
It was worse last year.
http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?mosaic=Arctic.2012134.terra.4km
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)5. Yeah, and last year CRUSHED the record
Nihil
(13,508 posts)6. ... and seriously damaged the ice thickness as well as the multi-year ice coverage ...
... so a smaller gap at this point this year doesn't mean a smaller total melt later
in the season for the simple reason that we're on uncharted territory - no prior
behaviour under the same circumstances as we've not *had* the same circumstances
before!
Go Tool Monkeys Go!