Environment & Energy

XemaSab

(60,212 posts) Tue May 14, 2013, 01:21 PM May 2013

DAAAAAAAAAAYUM!

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

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DAAAAAAAAAAYUM! (Original Post) XemaSab May 2013 OP

Please add some indication about subject, not just a link. Shrike47 May 2013 #1

big crack phantom power May 2013 #2

Wow . . . and it's, uh, May 14th? hatrack May 2013 #3

A little perspective OnlinePoker May 2013 #4

Yeah, and last year CRUSHED the record XemaSab May 2013 #5

... and seriously damaged the ice thickness as well as the multi-year ice coverage ... Nihil May 2013 #6

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

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

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 01:34 PM

May 2013

phantom power

(25,966 posts)

2. big crack

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 02:28 PM

May 2013

hatrack

(65,146 posts)

3. Wow . . . and it's, uh, May 14th?

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 06:12 PM

May 2013

What is that, about an 800-mile crack, and about 20 miles across in spots?

We.

Are.

So.

Fucked.

OnlinePoker

(6,149 posts)

4. A little perspective

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 06:28 PM

May 2013

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

Reply to OnlinePoker (Reply #4)

Tue May 14, 2013, 09:49 PM

May 2013

Nihil

(13,508 posts)

6. ... and seriously damaged the ice thickness as well as the multi-year ice coverage ...

Reply to XemaSab (Reply #5)

Wed May 15, 2013, 07:30 AM

May 2013

... 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!

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