I've been tracking Arctic temperatures for six years. The numbers don't lie—they just keep climbing. Yesterday I read about reindeer starving because rain froze their food under ice sheets. Rain. In the Arctic. In winter. I started this research thinking I'd document change. Now I document collapse. Every dataset is another obituary. Every graph slopes toward disaster. My advisor says to "stay objective." But how do you stay neutral when your life's work is a countdown timer? When your peer reviews come back asking for "more hopeful conclusions"? I used to love winter. Now I check ice extent data obsessively, watching white pixels disappear from satellite images like watching someone die in slow motion. The reindeer can't adapt this fast. Neither can I. #Science #ClimateScientist #LabBurnout