Their brilliant investigative journalists must be reporting from Nome.
Weird weather around the world sees in 2012
With unusual weather in Europe and the Americas, low Arctic ice,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jan/12/weird-weather-2012
When they say low ice, what they mean is the most ice for the date since at least 2004
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
And then they really hit the jackpot. They discovered that 2012 follows 2011.
2012 picks up where 2011 left off