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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Global warming expedition foiled by ice, ice and more ice

From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:

Global warming expedition foiled by ice, ice and more ice.HT: IceAgeNow.

“Like many fools before them, they expected the Arctic to be mostly ice free due to global warming.” – Anthony Watts

“If you want to tempt fate, organize an expedition to one of the polar regions to call attention to the perils of global warming,” says this article on Powerlineblog.com. “The outcome is foreordained.”

Severe weather conditions hindered our early progress and now ice chokes the passage ahead.
“At many Eastern places of NorthWestPassage locals have not seen this type ice conditions. Residents of Resolute say 20 years have not seen anything like. It’s, ice, ice and more ice. Larsen, Peel, Bellot, Regent and Barrow Strait are all choked. That is the only route to East. Already West Lancaster received -2C temperature expecting -7C on Tuesday with the snow.”
Richard Weber, my teammate to the South Pole in 2009 and without doubt the most accomplished polar skier alive today, is owner and operator of Arctic Watch on Cunningham Inlet at the northern end of Somerset Island. Richard dropped me a note the other day advising: “This has been the coldest season with the most ice since we started Arctic Watch in 2000. Almost no whales. The NW Passage is still blocked with ice. Some of the bays still have not melted!”

So the expedition is being abandoned.
Did this experience cause any second thoughts on the global warming campaign? Of course not!