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This is a blog for various yachts trying to cross the northwest passage in the summer. It looks like no one will be successful this year.
1 posted on 08/25/2014 4:55:04 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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"Given that the air temperatures in the Canadian Arctic are colder than average this summer "

No way, AlGore said the world is warming, and we all know, AlGore would never lie. < /sarcasm>

2 posted on 08/25/2014 5:00:27 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (Be kept informed on Maine's secession, sign up at freemaine@hushmail.com)
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Will 2014 go down in the record books without a single vessel making a Northwest Passage? I believe that speaks louder than all the media rhetoric that the Arctic ice is melting.... holy mackerel!

Shove all yer climate statistics. This says it all.

3 posted on 08/25/2014 5:05:35 PM PDT by onona (My mind = gallimaufry)
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How do you “over winter” in a yacht up there? Won’t the ice crush the boat like a potato chip?


8 posted on 08/25/2014 5:47:44 PM PDT by Campion
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Remember all those ships that were caught in the Antarctic ice last January? First the ship with the eco-nuts, then the ship sent to rescue them. Then the ship sent to rescue the rescue ship. The other ships wisely stayed out at sea.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/08/22222323-trapped-research-ship-rescue-vessel-break-free-of-antarctic-ice


9 posted on 08/25/2014 5:54:35 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Vince Ferrer
In 2008, Al Gore stated to a German audience, “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.” So that would have been 2013/14.

Al Gore in speech 2009; “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” Still have 2 years to go on this one.

A Greenpeace spokesperson said [2012]: "The disappearing Arctic still serves as a stark warning to us all. Data shows us that the frozen north is teetering on the brink. The level of ice 'has remained far below average' and appears to be getting thinner, leaving it more vulnerable to future melting. The consequences of further rapid ice loss at the top of the world are of profound importance to the whole planet. This is not a warning we can afford to ignore."

14 posted on 08/25/2014 6:34:49 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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Fitted with an ice-breaker bow, the tanker SS Manhattan,
a US flag and US crew transited the Northwest Passage in 1969.
15 posted on 08/25/2014 6:50:35 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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