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Remember that North Pole webcam that I mentioned the other day? Behind the cut is a shot of it sitting in a pool of its own meltwater.

( Cut for size )

Sure, surface melt is not uncommon in the Arctic, but it's a chilling sight, no?

Anyone got a sea kayak I can borrow? My kayak-to-the-North-Pole plans are being brought forward by a few years. :(

Current Mood: grim
Current Music: Wimblebum

According to boffins at the US National Snow and Ice Center, there's a greater than 50% chance that the ice over North Pole will melt completely this summer. An iceless North Pole is not the world I know: this is TEOTWAWKI. Only recently the predictions were for an iceless summer Pole in fifty to a dozen years.