“Remarkable Changes”
“Our generation is living in a period when remarkable changes are taking place almost everywhere throughout the world,” writes Professor L. Berg, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. “‘Certainly these widely distributed phenomena cannot be due to the action of the Gulf Stream, which, however, naturally receives its share of the greater general warmth.” The slow thawing of the Arctic is given as a partial explanation for the record voyages of Soviet ice-breakers to northern latitudes, which have never before been reached by navigating vessels. The Sadko in 1935, in ice- free water of the North Kara Sea, steamed to 82 degrees, 42 minutes of northern latitude—an all-time record.
I bet they wish they’d waited until the 21st Century, when they could have gone 500 miles further:
“By September 2007 the North Pole had been visited 66 times by different surface ships: 54 times by Soviet and Russian icebreakers, 4 times by Swedish Oden, 3 times by German RV Polarstern, 3 times by USCGC Healy and USCGC Polar Sea, and once by CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent and by Norwegian Vidar Viking.[43]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole
You are comparing icebreaker access to reports of ice-free water? How desperate are you?
Not only that, he didn’t give specific latitudes. Compare with the loonies that are planning to “canoe to the pole”, yet are doubtful to go further than 72, let alone 82.
@Dave N
I think many people agree that the North Pole is at 90N.
Steven,
The Sadko was an icebreaker. so what are you whining about?
Or did I miss the report on ICEFREE water?
I understand that it is tough for alarmists to read an entire paragraph.
Did you miss the “ice-free water” part of the news story?
Let’s see them have tried that April 25th this year, or next..
@Dave N
This is a report published on 25 April 1939 about an expedition which took place in 1935.
But back then they were interested in doing real science and learning what nature could teach them