Let's Look Into The Abyss Together! TERRA/MODIS Imagery Of Sea Ice At North Pole 8 September 2016

[hatrack]

https://twitter.com/ZLabe?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Whee! This is exciting!

[GliderGuider]

1. Holy shit!

That's terrifying. Never seen anything like it.

[hatrack]

2. Yeah, my thoughts exactly

We'll just miss the 2012 record low in extent, but I don't know what that even means any more, given the degree of fracturing that now spans most of the cap.

There are two "arms" (if you will) of rotten pack, one nearly reaching Svalbard, and the other reaching open water just NE of Franz Josef land.

Bear in mind, the image below is from three days ago.

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Not as bad as 2012, but…

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

[denbot]

3. We are well, and truly..

Fucked.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Good, just think of all the oil under there that we can access, now!