Norwegian brings Arctic Circle climate change to South Dakota |  argusleader.com

...the adventurer recounted the tale with gusto: braving the late-October gales, navigating icy waters in pitch darkness, slowly threading their lightweight craft through the Canadian archipelago as the water turned to ice behind them.
The crew followed old Viking routes through the unusually warm northern Atlantic, heavy with glowing blue icebergs, and toasted their safe return with champagne given to them by an old Russian skipper.

Thorleifsson described the “lethal beauty” of the polar landscape and the shock as an ecosystem teeming with wildlife — walruses, polar bears, whales — gave way to an “Arctic desert” devoid of life where the ice had melted.

“It was like shutting off a light switch,” he said.
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The crew was international by design — French, Russian and, briefly, the Dubai businessman who underwrote the $800,000 trip – because he wanted to simulate the atmosphere of mutual respect and problem-solving necessary to face the world’s toughest environmental challenge.
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After the lecture, he described the politicization of climate science among some in the U.S. as “willful blindness.”...

He doesn't look "unusually warm" to me.

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