The caption to the picture SHOULD read, "Yep, it's still cold enough for thin ice."
It's still dark in the Arctic. It will soon begin to find sunlight again, so this picture is more to illustrate the fact, REGARDLESS, of the devastation of Human Induced Global Warming on the Arctic Ocean there is still research being conducted.
In many venues of science, there is always hope that new facts will be found that will enlighten the volumes of information scientists already know about Earth. Always seeking, to the bitter end of any 'mission' is a scientist willing to 'risk it all' to promote the understanding they have dedicated their lives.
The American Public needs to understand that 'their denial' regarding the urgency and brevity of this issue has not eliminated the determination by scientists to retrieve as much information as they can and seek 'possibilities' leading to 'an absolute' answer to Earth's plans for it's biotic content with a rising global temperature.
It's time to stop polluting the troposphere with carbon dioxide and to save at any cost the biotic content of this planet.
Yup, it’s cold. Frederic Brabant risks getting a dunking as he checks temperature of the water during climate-change research.
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Local Time: March 3, 2008; 5:54 AM AKST
Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W
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UV :: 0 out of 16
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Local Time: March 2, 2008; 3:19 AM AKST
Temperature :: 36 °F / 2 °C
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Windchill :: 32 °F / 0 °C
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UV :: 0 out of 16
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