Arctic Heat Wave

This is a joy to anybody living in the Arctic.  This year, the barges will be able to make it to many northern communities.

But there is no joy in warmie Mudville.  This is total doom, making the worst projections absolutely true, even though it is localized.

Starting low, because of weird Pacific currents, the ice volume curve is set to set a new record in lowness.  It will dive because the tropical plumes love touring the Arctic this year.

Who da thunk it?  We'll soon see the washpost get all over this.  Unfortunately, if the Arctic is enjoying all this heat-energy largess, other places get shortchanged.

Sucks to b u, UK.

ps.  in a physics world there is only so much heat energy to go around.  It's all from the tropics and it goes up or it goes down, or gets stored in the oceans.  In a storybook world, there are no energy constraints.  Fantasy novels are all I read, because physics is so depressing.  :)