According to the Guardian

Since August 21 the North-West Passage is open to navigation. This is the first time that it happens,” Nalan Koc, head of the Norwegian Polar Institute’s climate change programme, told reporters in Longyearbyen, a town in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

Meanwhile I’m sure the global warming skeptic crowd is trying to find some way to dispute the climatologists’ use of statistics. But hey! New shipping route!