At two o’clock in the afternoon on the twenty-eighth day of November at four thousand feet in elevation close enough to the forty-fifth parallel to call it half way to the north pole… it’s fifty-five degrees. Thirty years ago it was five.

Climate change isn’t happeningUS Navy Plots Arctic Push

An “Arctic roadmap” by the Department of the Navy details a five-year strategic plan to expand fleet operations into the North in anticipation that the frozen Arctic Ocean will be open water in summer by 2030.