1. Arctic icecap is thinning: On average, it has dropped from about 10 feet thick to six feet since 1975 (2001) ... 50% smaller ... only 18% of ice volume.
2. Icecap has broken into several sections.
3. Rain was recorded for the first at the North Pole (2008)
4. In February, 2011, Oklahoma had a record low temperature which was 20 degrees colder than the North Pole.Why? The jetstream from Siberia was absconding with the cold moisture (that should be replenishing the polar icecap).
   
   (In 2008, I stopped recording broken records and in 2012 stopped recording winners of Mother Nature's lottery of natural disasters. It is like recording how many times your girl friend cheats on you. Very depressing.)

How does this happen? Hydrophlia. The increased CO2 from Prudhoe Bay oil rigs and from Russian forest fires, soaks up (dessicates) ice which does two climate critical things.

1. The jetstream polar bombs or vortices travel farther south closer to the equator bringing record cold, crop-destroying blasts.
2. The following summer has hotter, longer heatwaves as the smaller ice cap does less amelioration of high temperatures.

When the polar ice cap is gone, its demised modulation of heatwaves will result in a massive, unending heatwave that will destroy the foodchain in the Northern Hemisphere: an ELE--extinction level event--within 18 months.

Slideshow ... Doomsday Tape ... Polar Records

When the ice cubes melt,
lemonade is less tasty.

Canary in the Coal Mine