Royal Wakefield's video: 2013-07-24 - O CANADA COM - THE NORTH POLE IS NOW A LAKE

The North Pole, that great bastion of eternal cold and barren ice, is a lake. It's a shallow lake. It's a cold lake. But it is, actually, a lake. According to the North Pole Environmental Observatory, the summer ice is melting away at unprecedented rates. The sea of snow is now meltwater. Live Science wrote on their site that the temperature in the arctic is indeed warmer than average this summer. In early July, temperatures were 2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit (1 to 3 degrees Celsius) higher than average over much of the Arctic Ocean, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, based in the United States, the extent of sea ice has been shrinking for decades. The lake at the top of the world is shallow, and is purely made of melted ice. It is not sea water poking through to the surface. But melted water absorbs far more of the Sun's radiation than ice does, adding to the heating of the surrounding area. SOURCE: http://o.canada.com/2013/07/24/the-north-pole-is-now-a-lake/