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Global warming may leave McMurdo base cut off by ice
**Posted by Phineas
Call it Nature’s “grapefruit in the face” moment for governments that took global-warming alarmists at their word that polar ice would be vanishing. Now there aren’t enough icebreaker ships to go around:
Another little parable for our times is the story of Sweden’s refusal to lease its most powerful ice-breaker to help the United States in supplying its McMurdo base in Antarctica. The Swedes told Hillary Clinton that they need the Oden at home, after two years of unusually thick winter ice have brought shipping to a halt in the northern Baltic. The Americans have relied on the Oden’s services for five years because, as revealed by the Autonomous Mind blog, they have run down their own ice-breaker fleet, believing that global warming would render it unnecessary.
The Baltic nations, including Sweden, Russia, Finland and Estonia, now realise they need all the ice-breakers they can get, to avoid a repetition of the horror last spring when more than 100 ships were trapped in abnormally severe pack ice at both ends of Russia.
Meanwhile, the BBC – as usual at the peak of the Arctic’s summer melt – prattles on about ships that sail round the top of Russia and Canada, and the ice soon vanishing altogether. In its strange bubble, the BBC seems unaware that ships could do this 70 years ago, before “global warming”, and that the real story is the crisis created by the massive return, for two successive winters, of ice to the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Okhotsk.
Hard to blame the US government (1), though; after all, the science was settled. There was a consensus. Apparently Nature hadn’t watched An Inconvenient Truth.
Meanwhile, be sure to read the rest of Christopher Booker’s article; the first part shows how Germany, in a fit of irrational panic over the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, may go dark even faster than has been predicted for de-carbonizing Britain.
Footnote:
(1) Actually, no it’s not. That was dumb, guys.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets)
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I’m sitting here at home watching my beloved Ducks get a real thumping, enjoying some garden squash that is unusually late this year because of an unusually cold and wet spring. I’ve just started getting my early bird tomatoes, the beets are just starting to ripen and the winter squash isn’t anywhere close to picking. And to top it all off, nothing is growing to even average size!
Yeah, I guess this is all proof of global warming, alright.
One of my fellow bloggers has a piece on this and has published the letter from the Swedes to Clinton:
http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/reality-of-sea-ice-is-starting-to-bite/
Of course the reality is that Arctic sea ice is in accelerating and terminal decline, and will be gone in summer within 10 years… possibly 5. This is just one of thousands of undeniable signs of anthropogenic global warming.
Icarus62:
Monitoring of Arctic ice only began in 1972 and by satellite only in 1979. The truth is, we have little in the way of precise measurement to go by, not nearly enough for a sweeping pronouncement of “terminal decline.”
You may also want to acquaint yourself with the history of Arctic ice: there have been several periods in recorded history when the Northwest Passage and other polar routes have been relatively ice-free — moreso than today.
Did you know that much of the variation in Arctic ice can be attributed to wind patterns? Makes much more sense than any attempt to blame it on CO2. (And lest you sniff at the link being a FOX news article, note that the original article is in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters.)
As to the “undeniability” of AGW, well, I’ll leave religion to you.
@Icarus62: Algore’s motor mouth is also a sign of AGW, as is his Michael Moore-type propaganda film designed specifically to instill fear, not educate with facts.
The “facts” as you present them in your 2-sentence beeble are certainly not logical or recognizable as facts.