DAAAAAAAAAAYUM!

[XemaSab]

http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?mosaic=Arctic.2013133.terra.4km

[Shrike47]

1. Please add some indication about subject, not just a link.

[phantom power]

2. big crack

[hatrack]

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]

4. A little perspective

It was worse last year.

http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?mosaic=Arctic.2012134.terra.4km

[XemaSab]

5. Yeah, and last year CRUSHED the record

[Nihil]

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!