I started this thread a couple of years ago with some silly graphics uploaded to PhotoBucket. Since June they've been lost in PhotoBucket Hell; meaning that the very first post anyone would see when they clicked on this thread looked like crap.
I finally got around to recovering the graphics, moving them to Imgur, and editing the post.
Wow. This situation in the Arctic is unprecedented.
Look at this map. The implications are obvious:
... astounding!
But I think we can all agree that it would be meaningless without this context:
Really, that speaks for itself.
It's a reminder that my original idea for this was a thread where we'd laugh at ourselves a little bit. Over time it seems to have evolved into a truly massive archive of AGW-related cartoons, art, etc. Which is a good thing, too.
In the spirit of the original post, here's the appropriate response to Rob Dekker's question about the design of the JAXA Extent Predict-O-Matic (TM):