Steve GannArctic Ice 1 Northwest Passage Yachts 0
August 9th 2009 04:38
At least eight crews this summer are attempting what only an handful have ever succeeded: to navigate the 7,000 nautical miles above Canada that makes up the Northwest Passage.
The first recorded journey across the passage took place in 1850 with the next voyage in 1906. This proves that there has been less ice than there is today in the Arctic Circle.
The crews are racing the clock as there are only thirty or so days before the melt season ends and the Arctic begins the fall freeze.
How are things going this year?
There is more ice this year than in years 2005 thru 2008. It is starting to look doubtful that the passage that has opened the last two years will repeat in 2009.
It also looks like many of the climate experts were wrong in writing the Arctic off as ice free in just a few short years. The news of the rebuilding ice along with the recently published report that CO2 has less to do with climate change than does the wobbling tendencies of the Earth, means warmists are having to struggle to come up with new ways of blaming man for climate changes.
Oh well maybe the crews from the expeditions can sell some photos of some polar bears playing on an iceberg to Al Gore to use in future propaganda,
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