Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square

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  1. PDXFonz

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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    I wasn't able to find another writer who agrees with Rose and doesn't use his graphics or direct quotes to support their argument. However I only did a google search.
     
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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    Except that you are wrong as usual. The chinese ship and the oceanographic ship ended up getting free on their own.

    Do you really think the climate scientists were driving the boat?

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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    The Vikings first did the Northwest passage way back, maybe 1300 years ago or at least part of it.

    But some vessels have done it for years now, just more lately, thanks to warming.

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    http://www.skepticalscience.com/northwest-passage-has-been-navigated-in-the-past-intermediate.htm

    New business have been ushered in by the fortunate warming spell. Ship can go again through the Northwest Passage and the tourist love it.

    http://www.adventurecanada.com/trip/northwest-passage-west-east-2014/


    My take from watching the Canadian Ice service info for a couple years now is, I think you best have a steel ship now. It is getting more difficult due to ice.
     
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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    Forget it! You ain't going through the Bellot Strait.


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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    It's interesting that you think The Daily Caller is a bonafide news organization. You've gone quite a ways down the conservative rabbit hole.

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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    I provided two links to articles from other sources.
     
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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    LOL. You are the one who argues the wrong side of everything.

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/04/world/antarctica-ships-stuck/index.html

    (CNN) -- At the request of the Australian, Russian and Chinese governments, the U.S. Coast Guard is stepping up to help break up ice off Antarctica that has ensnared a pair of ships.

    The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star had been heading to that area anyway, having left its home port of Seattle early last month to eventually break through sea ice and refuel the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station on Ross Island.

    Now the icebreaker is retooling to help the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy and China's Xue Long due to "sufficient concern that the vessels may not be able to free themselves from the ice," the Coast Guard said Saturday in a statement.

    -- But yes, the ships did end up breaking free after two weeks of being stuck).

    As far as the boat and where it was driven...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Shokalskiy

    MV Akademik Shokalskiy (Russian: Академик Шокальский) is an Akademik Shuleykin-class ice-strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 and originally used for oceanographic research.[9] In 1998 she was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work; she is used also for expedition cruising.[7] She is named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky.[10]

    For two weeks from 25 December 2013 Akademik Shokalskiy was trapped in thick ice in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, while operating an expedition for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014. The scientists and passengers were evacuated on 2 January.[11]

    -- The ice was clearly much worse than they expected or they wouldn't have gotten stuck. Duh.
     
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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    I'm sure this is an amazing and insightful map. But the place it's projected/ focused upon added to the french only text, keeps me from understanding anything that's going on.
     
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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    "Stunning," lol...
     
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    Re: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million sq

    Short answer The current ice picture for the North of North America from the Canucks .
    It says this passage is jammed with ice. So we are seeing more ice not less.
    Does that mean the warming portion of the cycle is falling off? Maybe, but perhaps another 100 years will tell the tale.
     
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