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But not as shockingly thick as those who claim the sea ice is all melting rapidly and assorted drastic measures must be taken, no expense spared.
In late June, one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world encountered such extraordinarily thick ice on-route to the North Pole (with a polar bear specialist and deep-pocketed, Attenborough-class tourists onboard) that it took a day and a half longer than expected to get there. A few weeks later, in mid-July, a Norwegian icebreaker also bound for the North Pole (with scientific researchers on board) was forced to turn back north of Svalbard when it unexpectedly encountered impenetrable pack ice.
A polar bear on hummocked sea ice in Franz Josef Land. Photo by Michael Hambrey, date not specified but estimated based on tour dates to be 22 or 23 June 2019.
Apparently, the ice charts the Norwegian captain consulted showed ‘first year ice‘ – ice that formed the previous fall, defined as less than 2 m thick (6.6 ft) – which is often much broken…
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The article ends with this:
The propensity of navigational charts to use ice age rather than ice thickness to describe ice conditions almost certainly explains the Norwegian icebreaker captain getting caught off-guard by exceptionally thick first year ice because first year ice 3 m thick simply should not exist.
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Russia Launches New Nuclear Icebreaker
MAY 26, 2019
By Paul Homewood
These are massive ships, some of the most powerful in the world with a price tag to match. At least 2 more will be ordered…
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2019/07/rosatomflot-announces-tender-additional-two-nuclear-powered-icebreakers
Why spend billions if you expect nature to melt the ice anyway? Obviously they don’t expect that any time soon.
12 years to save the world – really? 😂
The dangers of relying on non-observed data?
Yet again the real world is different from the inferred world.
read the report(s). The willful lying about what is happening in the sea ice (and elsewhere) is just so psychotic. They refuse to accept that their meme about AGW and the end of [fill in the blank with your favorite] as we know it has been invalidated by Mother Nature.
1) what is the ideal temperature for the planet’s “climate”? [no one will answer that]
2) how do you measure it? [no consensus on how to do that]
3) are we measuring it that way now? [of course not]
4) when was the temperature ever that value? [what value?]
5) how long did that last? [still waiting for that answer]
Just more rent seekers watching the wheels come off their ‘end of the world’ wagon and denying it is happening.
Yet the catastrophist echo chamber is flooding the public square with anti-scientific apocalyptic crap.
A few weeks later, in mid-July, a Norwegian icebreaker also bound for the North Pole (with scientific researchers on board)
So we have another ‘ship of fools’ except at the north pole this time, at least they managed to get out themselvesunlike the Australian climate alchemists of a few years ago.
It really is a cargo cult.
Mimicking the process of science whilst completely ignorant of the scientific process.
ivan:
The fools were transferred (at great cost) to other ships. Unencumbered by them the russian captain got his ship back to NZ over a week sooner than his previous deadweights.
That fox made it from Norway to … Canada wasn’t it.
Did they find the crushed hull and frozen corpse of the BBC’s yachtsman who was sailing to the North Pole? Sorry, I forgot- he gave up as not reported by the BBC.
Yet media and the search engines that promote media are flooding “suggested” selections with anti-scientific catastrophist bs.
I’ve never been to the Barents Sea or the North Pole. Don’t ever expect to.
‘Shockingly thick first year ice between Barents Sea and the North Pole in mid-July’
If you hadn’t told me, I’d never know. Why should I care how much ice is there? I don’t know the humidity in Manaus, nor the temperature in Tucumcari, either. No reason to care about somebody else’s weather.
https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1156544082153529344