Northwest Passage Shipping Update

8 Responses to Northwest Passage Shipping Update

1. Billy Liar says:

   June 10, 2013 at 5:42 pm

   You have to wonder what’s causing the melting in Lancaster Sound (between Baffin Island and Devon Island). Subterranean heat?

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2. Scott says:

   June 10, 2013 at 5:45 pm

   Maybe there is a current between the two bodies of water which makes the ice thinner.

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3. Billy Liar says:

   June 10, 2013 at 5:59 pm

   I suppose it could be a case of the albedo effect: a stress crack opens up at the western end and the warmed water flowing west to east gradually melts out the Sound.

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   • tckev says:

     June 10, 2013 at 7:38 pm

     An interesting paper that may cover what you say is here –
     http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-3224.1

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4. Sleepalot says:

   June 11, 2013 at 3:10 am

   One to watch – http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/
   4-man row across the NW passage. Starts Jul 1st.

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   • Andy Oz says:

     June 11, 2013 at 4:04 am

     They’re gonna need motorised ski mobiles to drag their rowboats across the ice in July. Perhaps they should wait till September like all the Warm-Earthers are doing. Apparently the moons align then and the Great Pumpkin appears ……..or something.

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     • Otter says:

       June 11, 2013 at 8:59 am

       Are you sure they are smart enough to wait? Every time I hear about these jokers, its ‘freezing’ this, and ‘going backwards’ that, and ‘froze to death’ in the ‘fast-warming’ Arctic…

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5. Bloke down the pub says:

   June 11, 2013 at 11:07 am

   Not much going on here.
   http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/#

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