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Researchers predict ice-free North Pole this year
Nunatsiaq News ^ | May 23, 2008 | JANE GEORGE

Posted on 05/25/2008 1:25:21 PM PDT by PROCON

Here's the good news: this summer's Arctic ice melt means an early start to the Hudson Bay shipping season.

Forecasts show Coast Guard icebreakers will no longer be necessary for shipping to Churchill after July 16.

That's 15 days earlier than the average ice-free shipping date of July 31, which means re-supply barges should able to reach communities in Nunavut's Kivalliq and Kitikmeot regions that much earlier.

But the down side to the retreat of the Arctic's thin ice cover is a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will become ice-free this September - for the first time in more than 100,000 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at nunatsiaq.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; damnlies; globalwarming; lies; northpole; predictions
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To: PROCON
But the down side to the retreat of the Arctic's thin ice cover is a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will become ice-free this September -

And this is bad because?

21 posted on 05/25/2008 2:35:36 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: PROCON
Good. Instead of getting sled dogs, muckluks, and whatnot, I can just fire up the Chris Craft and zip on up there.

Or paddle the kyak. Whatever.

22 posted on 05/25/2008 2:35:36 PM PDT by Othniel (Kirk: Don't trust them. Don't believe them. Spock: They're dying. Kirk: LET THEM DIE.)
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To: PROCON
for the first time in more than 100,000 years

Of course, there is no way they would have known weather or not there was no ice at the pole even 500 years ago, let alone 100,000.

23 posted on 05/25/2008 2:36:58 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: PROCON

If their prediction comes true, they will say “see! global warming”
If it doesn’t come true, we will near nothing more of it.


24 posted on 05/25/2008 2:50:25 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: PROCON

Woo hoo. I’ll get my water ski’s and you bring the beers.


25 posted on 05/25/2008 2:51:57 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: PROCON

Good thing the North Pole has never moved in the last 100,000 years...


26 posted on 05/25/2008 4:51:33 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Spitzer would have used the Mann Act against an enemy in a New York minute.)
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To: PROCON

Someone screwed up. This is a short term forecast. Usually the forecasts are 30+ years. This is one to check back on, email the writer to ask what happened and if she’ll make a retraction, and post the response.


27 posted on 05/25/2008 5:42:04 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Did somebody mentions thickness?


28 posted on 05/25/2008 7:01:59 PM PDT by Thickman (Term limits are the answer.)
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To: PROCON

I just saw that Victoria Australia just reported the lowest temperature for the month of May where it got down to -13C (7F) a couple of days ago.


29 posted on 05/25/2008 7:19:20 PM PDT by MarkeyD (McCain ain't nuttin' but a hound dog.)
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To: Swiss
I heard one scientist say there is more oil under the arctic than the entire Mideast.

That's true. The dinosaurs killed wooly mammoths and used them for coats.

30 posted on 05/25/2008 7:35:12 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Ted Kennedy is the finest collection of hops and barley money can buy)
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To: Thickman

I’m glad to see someone caught the inference.


31 posted on 05/25/2008 9:01:16 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: PROCON
Sea Ice conditions in Hudson Bay are exactly normal right now so there is nothing to report here.

The sea ice is usually melts by mid-July in Hudson Bay so again, there is nothing to report here. It returns by mid-December so it is not exactly a long shipping season.


32 posted on 05/26/2008 6:10:15 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: Swiss

In ‘84 I was on an exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea, (50 miles off Milne Point in Prudhoe Bay area,) It was drilled from a man-made island. (Mukluk Island)

It was and still is the most expensive well ever drilled. (1.7 Billion $) It was a dry hole. It broke Diamond Shamrock and hurt Exxon so badly, they sold out their interest on the North Slope to Standard Oil. (SAPC)

There is some directional drilling and concrete floater drilling near the shore line, but most of the oil is inland.

The difficulty to drill offshore there, mainly because of the pack ice, will put a halt to any optimism or effort.


33 posted on 05/26/2008 6:23:12 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

But if the ice at the North Pole melts then would it be doable?


34 posted on 05/26/2008 9:19:48 AM PDT by Swiss
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To: PROCON
50-50 chance that the North Pole will become ice-free this September - for the first time in more than 100,000 years.

Saw the idea that the north pole has not been ice free for that long and then on further readings of the sentence saw that they meant this is the first 50-50 chance in 100,000 years. How they know this is not known, since none of them are over 30.

35 posted on 05/26/2008 9:27:10 AM PDT by RightWhale (You are reading this now)
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To: piytar
Here is this year's current ice extent compared to 1979 (the first year a satellite image was available). We can watch it throughout the summer to see who is right.

Compare Daily Sea Ice

36 posted on 05/26/2008 8:16:01 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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