The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard of high temperatures in that part of the earth's surface.
The article pictured below is the source of this information:

Thanks to Anthony Watts for locating this.
Nobody bothered, did they?
http://selfinger.com/fp/art/andree.htm
And of course real scientists and honest debaters don't hide behind pseudonyms.
Heavens to Betsy, I don't read RC at all, and I feel all the better for it :-0
"Come on Paul, quoting newspaper articles and your own blog are pretty poor examples of 'science' "
Considering that AGW has little to do with science and very much to do with alarmist social manipulation, I think that the article is appropriate.
"Note too I don’t generally read RC"
Then why give us Wiki links. William Connolly is the GW editor for Wiki. He is a contributor to RC and an honorary member of the hockey team.
Anthony Watts is a meteorologist blogger, not a hatchet man.
The clippings aren't from a newspaper either, but from the monthly weather review. Since when did the weather have to be peer reviewed?