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Title: British explorers say within a decade North Pole summers will be virtually ice free
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-10-14 21:39:36
Canadian

[gonavy47]

First dibs on the time-share condo!

[Brenda]

Someone should save this and re-post in 10 years...

[BartSimpson]

I thought this was a repost?

http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/04/ ... -2008.html

[BartSimpson]

Actual picture of Churchill, MB this last summer:

[Brenda]

So you went there on exotic holiday and you didn't invite me? Geesh Bart!

[Proculation]

THAT would be a great North West Passage

[Regina]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Actual picture of Churchill, MB this last summer:

[BartSimpson]

Brenda Brenda:

So you went there on exotic holiday and you didn't invite me? Geesh Bart!

Churchill is so much nicer now that all of the polar bears have drowned.

[PluggyRug]

It's all those ice fishermen taking home more than their allowed quota.

[BartSimpson]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

It's all those ice fishermen taking home more than their allowed quota.

Yeah, why are they catching all that ice?

[PluggyRug]

$1:

He added: "This could lead to flooding affecting one-quarter of the world's population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools and extreme global weather changes."

The above bit gets me, does the guy know that the ice is floating and if it all melts, would cause an actual drop in sea levels.

[gigs]

British explorers should go and get real jobs now that their funding is drying up.
and the ice is getting thicker

[SprCForr]

IIRC, wasn't this the same group that had to cut short their melting icecap expedition due to severe cold temps and running out of food etc? That would also be the same mob with the bogus info being posted online too.

[N_Fiddledog]

I followed the Caitlin Expedition while it was happening. I'll try to recount from memory why this was a bogus lark, but for verification I collected links while the farce was going on.

Meteorologist proclaims, "I weep for Science"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/19/c ... #more-7195

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/04/b ... #more-6759

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/07/c ... #more-6855

http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2009/04/w ... arctic.php (This one's from Wikipedia's resident climate alarmist, information adjuster, so if even he had to admit the Caitlin joke expedition was unscientific you can pretty much take it to the bank.)

http://climatedepot.com/a/745/Arctic-Co ... -below-40C

OK, so first of all, Caitlin, the company that imagined and financed the expedition is an insurance company. If it's not immediately obvious to you why an insurance company would find it advantageous to propagate a warming catastrophe scare you're not using your imagination.

The first thing the Caitlin expedition did was look at the satellite data which told them where the first year ice was. They then plotted a circuitous route to the north pole following where the first year ice should be. They started to send back data. Surprise, surprise; they were finding first year ice.

The weather got colder than they expected as our intrepid adventurers meandered about the ice pack, kind of Northward. Frostbite, and discomfort anybody but a loony-toon, worshipper of Gaia would expect followed. They started losing their equipment in the white-out. They were digging less holes, or when they did manage to get one dug it was done in a haphazard, unscientific manner.

First year ice is easier to travel over than multi-year. They followed the easier route, as travel became more difficult.

They never did make it to the North Pole, which was their goal. I think they almost made it half-way though.

Oh, and remember how fossil-fuel is supposed to be a bad thing. Forget how much was wasted rescuing them at the last minute. They left barrels of the crap all over the ice. We poor, dumb, Canadians had to come back later, and clean their mess up.

Also the satellite data (yes the same data used to find a good first year ice path for Caitlin to take) contradicted Caitlin's results. Multi-year ice was expanding.