A scary flight from Chicago

Greetings from Beijing! I arrived yesterday after a scary flight from Chicago. The flight traveled pretty close to the North pole if not exactly over it. Looking out the window instead of a frozen ice sheet as I had been expecting. I saw broken ice sheets with water between them. Of course there is no such thing as global warming as the Bush administration and those ostriches at the Wall Street Journal editorial board keep trying to assure us. But, seeing that open water between the ice at the North Pole was an eye opener.