A route has now opened allowing people to "sail" to the North Pole for the first time in recorded human history...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/climatewarmingarctic
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European scientists voiced shock as they showed pictures which showed Arctic ice cover had disappeared so much last month that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe's most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself.
The satellite images were acquired from August 23 to 25 by instruments aboard Envisat and EOS Aqua, two satellites operated by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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