Convinced as they are of arctic ice loss — and given the fact that it is mid-April — one wonders why they didn’t sleep in a boat:

This is the dramatic moment a British team of scientists had a miraculous escape during an Arctic surveying expedition — when a huge ice crack opened — beneath their tents.
The three member Catlin Arctic Survey is at the North Pole doing an annual survey to assess the effects of climate change — and has narrowly avoided calamity.
The team members Ann Daniels, Martin Hartley and Charlie Paton were camping on the ice pan when it started to break up.

They sure had their cameras ready in short order, huh?

For more on Arctic ice melt, see Chris Horner from Friday.