Okay. Maybe someone has already thought of this, and perhaps someone has already said this in comments but...exactly WHY is the lack of multi-year ice a shocking find (just shocking, I tell you!) after the screaming, moaning, and doomsaying about the Arctic in the summer of 0000? That was a real dip in what we are used to seeing for summer ice, though I am not sure I would call it extreme, but it was certainly noticeable. Yet if that is the case, we're not even 0 years removed from that event. And they are stunned (just stunned, I tell you!) at the lack of multi-year ice? Uhhh.... Have they been asleep the past 0 years?