October 2, 2014
SEATTLE – A mission to the Arctic is now underway aboard a sophisticated high tech weather plane to continue study of the melting of ice and the warming of the Arctic Ocean.
The mission aboard a Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft will be based out of Fairbanks, Alaska, for the next three weeks. On board are some of the nation’s top scientists on climate change.
Special flight from Seattle to Arctic studies global warming
The nation’s top scientists are apparently a bunch of real geniuses.
I’ll bet they see it too!
With their special GW glasses.
Special glasses? This is all wrong. Climatologists need to stop flying over the Arctic in planes and ask climate refugees on the ground instead.
The preeminent American ”Walrus Whisperer” Chris Mooney did and they convinced him.
Fortunately, Jeff Bezos and the management at the Washington Post immediately recognized Mr. Mooney’s rare talent and hired him to cover the environment:
http://twitchy.com/2014/10/03/washington-post-hires-chris-mooney-author-of-the-republican-war-on-science-to-cover-global-warming
h/t Instapundit
Hyperlink fixed:
The preeminent American ”Walrus Whisperer” Chris Mooney.
When drinking their champagne and celebrating their good fortunes at landing more large research grants to CONFIRM global warming, they will feel warm inside – regardless of the temperature outside.
It’s a dry heat…
It is a dry hump…..
It is a dry hemp…
It’s a dry heave…
With enough alcohol-based anti-freeze under their belts those scientists will observe ice melt away under -19 Grad temperatures and discover a new species spawned by Global Warming—pink pachyderms!
Brewdog has run out of stock of their favorite Nanny State Beer (0.5% ABV) but still has plenty of Everyday Anarchy Beer (10.3% ABV).
http://www.brewdog.com/shop/our-beer~small-batch
Bizarre!
1) The last two years we have had less (Arctic) melt than the previous six years.
2) The average winter maximum sea ice has been 13.5 Km2, summer minimum 3.5 Km2
3) So about 75% of the Arctic sea ice melts and freezes again each year. How does it keep getting thinner?
4) Each year the area which is frozen depends on the winds and ocean currents
Yes, there was a downward trend (and an upward trend in the Antarctic) but one would expect that is due to the current warm phase of the Atlantic Multidecadel .Oscillation; in particular, the resulting flow of water with high salinity.
You had me at “bizarre”.. It has to be bad timing; if not extremely insane timing. SMH till it falls off
Yep. I was looking at it in this fashion:
With this in the background . . . NOAA study noted that in 2007, ocean circulation direction in the Arctic – flipped. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2007-131
2014 Arctic sea ice extent at summer minimum was larger than 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 – and about the same as 2013. Except for 2012 (monster storm broke up the ice), 2007 marked a turning point – a reversal in the long downward trend of the summer melt season.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
You guys are crazy. Everyone knows the heat that is hiding in the depths of the oceans is rising and melting the Arctic ice from underneath, that is why the ice melts even when the air temperatures are below freezing. So all the scientists have to do is get their “high-tech weather plane” to fly under the ice to see that…….uh oh….never mind!
I think they should give it a try!
At. 3:15 pm central time eureka temp is up to -18*c arctic amplifaction!
http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/nu-11_metric_e.html
I can think of much better uses for a P-3 Orion. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_UY47FHjgrM/TbnMbQifA0I/AAAAAAAAT5Q/5QJYIRvmCew/s1600/AIR_P-3C_Orion_lg.jpg
They need a challenge… not many hurricanes to fly into this season.
Just curious…are underwater volcanoes under the artic like the antartic?
Not yet – but if this GW continues, could happen soon.
YES! June 26, 2008 Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths
If they are studying why the ice is melting I hope they brought their scuba gear. The polar bears need a few more snacks before winter sets in.
The mission: Observe Arctic ice melt.
The logistics: A P3 Orion, her crew and a bunch of “scientists” with good connections in main stream media to insure scary coverage is assured.
The challenge: It’s no longer summer in the Arctic and ice is being created, not lost.
The solution: Land P3 Orion on ice and direct exhaust from its four Allison T56-A-14 turboprop engines at ice until it becomes water and then steam.
The media reports: “Arctic ice observed melting at unprecedented rates. Incontrovertible proof found that Mankind is obviously responsible and the use of fossil fuels is to blame.”
Mission Accomplished
BRAVO, you have managed to portray them very close to their actual level of buffoonery.
Remember….if it is cold it is humans fault…if the ice is melting it is the humans fault
My old stomping grounds …slyder fjord and eureka will be frozen now…
Eureka Sound… hit enter to quickly…
(With pipe in mouth …) “We have top men working on it right now.”
Basing the effort at Fairbanks puts the ocean a couple of hours away, so they waste maybe a third of each flight just getting to and from the ocean. I’m surprised they are not using Nome or Barrow, both ocean front airports with good support.
Nicer hotels / bars in Fairbanks or perhaps the hookers are cheaper / more skilled 😉
Maybe cheaper but “more skilled”? Show me Hookergate emails that outstrip Climategate.
At least the working girls are honest unlike Climate Prostitutes.
I’ve heard from younger men that when the workers couldn’t obtain a good hockey stick or at least a statistically significant rise, they conceded the fact and returned the funds.
The P-3 can fly for 16 hours or more. Conditions permitting they can shut down one or two engines to extend their flight time. The aircraft was developed as a sub hunter so it has to have considerable range and the ability to loiter for extended periods even when carrying a full load of sensors and weapons.
You are quite right, the P-3 endurance can be stretched to that extent, although the performance of the crew gets more spotty, because it is not the cushiest experience.
I’m just curious why they would base the mission so far inland for an ocean study
The P-3 is actually a derivative of the Lockheed Electra, which was used by the Eastern Airlines NYC to Boston shuttle. The design goes back to the 1950s.
Probably flying out of Eielson AFB. The only other major AFB in Alaska is near Anchorage further south.
Another ship of fools! Hooray!
It is fortunate that Global Warming Climate “scientists” don’t have mandatory drug screening. Everybody would know that they hear colors and taste music and see flavors!
They formulated their conclusion long before arriving there (it’s worse than we thought!). The epitome of scientific method. Form your conclusion before examining the data
That’s exactly how post-modern science works.
Are you sure they are not going Walrus watching, they are gartered up for the migration.
I see more below avg water temps then above in the Arctic waters, Pacific NW is warm but Solar
use tabs on left side to navigate.
https://twitter.com/NJSnowFan/status/518196125955010561
link to maps . http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/satellite/index.uk.php
Today according to MAISE, Arctic gained over 100,000 square kms of ice!
Damn, that’s some pretty heavy melting going on.
oh, also, at Eureka, the sun rises for the last time in or around Oct 26….not much daylight left…I guess they will be using Infra Red to see at night. (sun rose back around Feb 19th)
Why are they heading to the Arctic? They could just set-up at the Great Lakes and save tax payers some money.
Word Unimpress seems to be booting all my comments into moderation so this is a test.
We’re not that unimpressed with Unimpress failing to impress the automatic moderation software due to, due to, a glitch, due’to’aglitch, t a glitttccchh, itttcch, cchhhh!
And then multiple hairballs shoot out the screen
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Even better, why leave home at all, since they (and we) already know what the findings will be?
Who says they will actually leave the ground? Airplane, bar? Airplane, bar? let’s think about this. A few old photos will do the trick. Or whoohoa… fly out over some ocean water and viola!!! IT’S WORST THAN WE THOUGHT!!!!
It’s these jollys that persuade them of the need to keep the scam rolling.
Folks, I really am starting to think we are being punked by these people. Perhaps they, too, are now embarrassed by what they are being asked to do, and have decided to do something so absurd that anyone with a functioning brain can see that it’s ridiculous.
RTF
As Czech President Klaus concluded many years ago, “It’s about freedom.”
http://junkscience.com/2014/10/04/roy-spencer-on-how-people-seem-to-not-care-about-the-warming-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-274546
Here is an interesting story on Professor Curry, the academic climatologist that has refused to
follow the government’s trail of consensus research grant funds.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060006489