The Dying Canary

Here’s another sign that we should be thinking about how to get out of the mine shaft: a huge and sudden ice fracture in the Beaufort Sea, as documented by the Canadian Ice Service (did you even know we had one?)

Click here to go to the CIS site, and then click on the second image down to see the fracture evolve over a month.
And just to give some perspective, here’s the Beaufort Sea in the context of Alaska on the left and the Canadian Arctic.

Huge Fracture in Beaufort Sea ice pack worries scientists
The fracture, first discovered in December, occurred in the Beaufort ice pack off the west coast of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories….
“It’s the first time we’ve seen it happening so dramatically like this because we lost so much ice last summer,” said (David) Barber, who last year led a team of scientists aboard the ice breaker Amundsen to the Beaufort Sea to study the changes.
“We’re starting to think this is what the future’s going to look like,” Barber told CBC News.