Ancient Arctic Ice Shelf Break Up Speeds Up - Fastest Melt On Record

The Arctic ice shelf is disintegrating. Even the thickest and oldest ice, which is 3000 years old and thick as a ten story building, is breaking up along the north coast of Canada, as tracked by the Canadian military and scientists.

BBC has a video on the huge fissures that have been developing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7418041.stm

And over on Thomas Homer-Dixon's page is a time-lapse video captured via sateltite of how the ancient ice is being flushed down the strait between Canada's and Greenland's coasts:
source: www.homerdixon.com

This is the fastest arctic ice melt on record, shocking scientists, according to the BBC.

(ED: Maybe one of the pieces of ice will hit Dixie Lee Ray in the head and knock some sense into her?)