The Arctic Icecap

Yes, it's true! The arctic icecap has shrunk!

The European space agency said its images showed the rate of overall ice loss had risen sharply to its highest rate since satellite records began thirty years ago.

That's opened up the historically impassable Northwest passage through the Canadian Arctic, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The famous sea-route has, until recently, been completely ice-bound throughout the year. Scientists say global warming is to blame for melting the ice and making the route navigable for the first time since records began in 1978.

OMG! The melting has reached the greatest rate seen in the 30 years of records!! Ice levels have reached their lowest levels in 30 years of records!!! Uh, wouldn't that mean that, on average, the icecap had been greater in the last few years than 30 years ago?