...It honestly seems pretty on top of things, to me. Melt ponds themselves aren't unusual phenomena, even if ponding in recent years has been more widespread than in the past (I don't actually know if that's the case, by the by; I'm just saying that the observation of a melt pond at a high latitude in midsummer is, in and of itself, not terribly alarming. There are, of course, plenty of other legitimate reasons to be mostmuch concerned), and as far as I understand they're right enough about the buoy drift.