What this piece says — once you bother to read it which Goddard counts on you failing to do — is there's a greater than 50 %
chance of open ocean this year at the pole, with the pole possibly reachable by surface craft.
Not exact matches
If you keep your eyes
open,
chances are you'll see monkeys, exotic birds and unmatched views
of the Pacific
Ocean.
Cullather et al. show more ice north
of Alaska and significant
open ocean north
of the Siberian coastline, including a 100 %
chance of an
open Northern Sea Route.