It has been five years since Canada’s leading ice expert announced that multi-year ice is a thing of the past.
The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday.
Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which can reach up to 80 meters (260 feet) thick, have for centuries blocked the path of ships seeking a quick short cut through the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They also ruled out the idea of sailing across the top of the world.
But David Barber, Canada’s Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, said the ice was melting at an extraordinarily fast rate.
Five years since the last of it disappeared, half of the Arctic Basin is full of multi-year ice.
Zombie ice!
Raising from the deep warm sea…
It will starve – there are no brains to suck out of the climate scientists.
Didn’t you know the polar bears used the last of it to ice down their cans of Coke, and they forgot to refill the trays.
Donchya know, that’s because all of the heat ran down to hide at the bottom of the ocean! I can’t even keep up with their fairy tales any more. They just make it up as they go along.
Here is Barber again.
As has been pointed out the north pole has been ice free this century and last century. It is not unprecedented, as I pointed out HERE. Barber’s claim would have been false even if it did become ice free.
Here is the NOAA.
I have other examples of ice-free north pole news reports in the 20th century, as well as dismissals of its importance in the modern day.
This clown is all over the place. When his 2008 prediction of an immediate ice-free Arctic failed, a few months later (October 2008), he said ice-free by 2015:
“”2015 is our estimate for summer free (of) ice.”
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/35647494.html
Steve has been fisking this guy for years:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/david-barber-up-to-his-old-tricks/