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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Expedition To Study Global Warming Put On Hold Because Of TOO MUCH ICE
2015-11-30
[The Daily Caller] An expedition to study the effects of global warming was put on hold Wednesday. The reason? Too much ice.

The CCGS Amundsen, a Medium Arctic icebreaker and Arctic research vessel operated by the Canadian Coast Guard, was to travel throughout Hudson Bay, a body of water in northeastern Canada, but was rerouted to help ships who were stuck in the icy water.

A Coast Guard officer said the conditions were the "worst he's seen in 20 years," reports CBC news.

"Obviously it has a large impact on us," says Martin Fortier, executive director of ArcticNet, which coordinates research on the vessel. "It's a frustrating situation."

ArcticNet is a network of scientists who study "the impacts of climate change and modernization in the coastal Canadian Arctic."

The vessel is one of only two icebreakers in the Arctic, leaving the ship obligated to reroute their travel plans to help break ice for resupply ships.

Johnny Leclair, an assistant commissioner for the Coast Guard, said there should be two more icebreakers headed to the Arctic in the next week, which would free up their ship to continue on their originally planned trip.

Fortier is hopeful the season will still be productive.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  If we admit global warming is the biggest scam since the Piltdown man, can we still have our grant money?
Posted by: SteveS   2015-11-30 11:55  

#5  the issue is more complex

for example, the medieval warm period resulted in population increase and when harvests were bad with some fierce winters beginning in 1310 or so, the population was weakened and were easier targets for the bubonic plague which hit europe beginning in about 1315
Posted by: lord garth   2015-11-30 11:38  

#4  Bookmark for future reference.

Correlation is not causation, but many, if not all, of man’s worst times since the last glacial maximum occur during colder and dryer periods. Often these times were made worse by warfare as in the Greek Dark Ages, the sacking of Rome, the collapse of the Akkadian Empire, etc. The colder and more arid climate could have been part of the cause of the wars. We go to war when we are starving and thirsty. More importantly, I was unable to find evidence of a crisis* that was due to warming.

* not to be confused with modern media created and hyped pseudo-crisis
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-30 09:07  

#3  map of ice extent at the end of last week

note ice excess in Hudson Bay, ice deficit north of scandinavia
Posted by: lord garth   2015-11-30 08:32  

#2  whatever, it's getting worse! Now gimme my grant money
Posted by: Frank G   2015-11-30 07:54  

#1  Fortier is hopeful the season will still be productive.

Of course it will. Global warming is getting worse! Sorry. Climate Change is getting worse. In less than ten years, it'll be different.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-11-30 07:14  

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