.

[XemaSab]

:popcorn:

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. I'm a humanities person. I don't understand.

Does purple mean bad?

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. No, purple is actually good

Check the scale on the left.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

5. So... there's not enough purple?

I know this thread is probably an attempt to troll, but now I'm convinced our polar caps are actually covered with purple.

[OKIsItJustMe]

12. Well, it is February, and you are looking at the North pole

This is (essentially) as much as we're going to see.

Check the two lines. (Gray is average for 1979-2000, Blue is current.)
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html


Check out the orange line, that's the outline of where the ice was (on average) for 1979-2000.


(Follow the link at top for more of an explanation.)

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

13. Thanks for the explanation.

I really appreciate it. :)

[XemaSab]

14. I'm a troll?

Good to know. ;)

[petronius]

15. Some of us have been saying that for years...

:P

[hatrack]

2. Why is the E. Siberian Sea (or a chunk of it) open in February?

:wtf:

[XemaSab]

4. Ya nye zhnaio

:shrug:

[NickB79]

6. Is Hudson Bay always open in winter like that? nt.

[XemaSab]

7. Notsomuch, no

[wtmusic]

10. I know John Coleman has a great explanation

why that second image is a lot less purply than the first. I just know he does.

[phantom power]

8. Yeah, so much for "locked albedo."

Fuck.

[hatrack]

9. "Camelot!" "Camelot!!" "Camelot!!!"

"It's only a model."

"Shhh!!"

[phantom power]

11. ....

:rofl: