The Argus-Press – Jun 24, 2008
Government experts and prophets say the Arctic is ice free, so you can now travel the Northwest Passage for only $21,000 to $47,000.
This sounds like a fun cruise – freezing your ass off in the Arctic, generating a massive CO2 footprint, and struggling through 10 foot thick ice behind an ice breaker – just so you can brag about global warming to your buddies.
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April 24, 2015 – Intrusion / eruption (?) event at Axial Seamount
There was a major seismic/deformation event at Axial Seamount on 23-24 April 2015. Thousands of earthquakes and sudden ground deformation (subsidence of 2.4 m over the first 3 days) were detected by the instruments on the OOI Cabled Array. The event definitely involved an intrusion of magma into the upper south rift zone (probably a dike), but it is not yet clear if there was also an eruption of lava onto the seafloor. Apparently, no lava was erupted in the summit caldera where the OOI cabled observatory instruments are located, because they all survived and there are no obvious temperature anomalies (yet). It’s still possible that lava erupted either north or south of the caldera along one of the rift zones, but we won’t know if that happened until a ship can get out there to look (probably not until late May at the earliest, but definitely by mid-July). Real-time seismic data from the OOI cabled observatory are being posted by William Wilcock here, and bottom pressure/tilt data are being posted here. There was an Axial Seamount science planning workshop 20-22 April in Seattle and the meeting web site has more information about this event. This is the event that we forecast last fall to occur sometime in 2015, so it’s very exciting that it actually happened! We will have an expedition to Axial in mid-August to repeat our campaign-style pressure measurements to update the time-series below.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/axial_blog.html
19 hours ago…
http://www.weather.com/series/warp/video/axial-seamount-underwater-volcano-spewing-lava-off-oregon-coast
Oregon’s Axial Seamount Underwater Volcano Erupts
Again solar activity increases dramatically. Earthquake Activity will increase?
Region Number of
sunspots Class
Magn. Class
Spot
2335 30 ? – ? – ? EAC
2336 9 ? DRO
2337 2 ? BXO
2338 4 ? BXO
2339 1 ? BXO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSmQB2yJQg0
Visit the North Pole Aboard a Russian Icebreaker
http://www.gonomad.com/2923-visit-the-north-pole-aboard-a-russian-icebreaker
Or travel with the Norwegian Royalties in Arctis with Lance:
http://www.npolar.no/en/projects/details?pid=b98886ce-590a-48a8-b113-4b96e98c65c8
From the FAQ’s – and even here they can’t quite come clean and call the “escort ship” an icebreaker ……..merely it has “ice breaking capabilities” For the sake of all involved I hope that it’s “capabilities” are up to the job in hand !!
3. Isn’t the Northwest Passage too full of ice to transit?
Crystal Serenity plans to transit during the period of when ice concentration is minimal. The typical conditions along the planned route during the Arctic summer are substantially free of ice. With these extremely low ice concentrations, keeping the ship well clear of ice is entirely feasible.
In addition, an escort vessel will accompany Crystal Serenity. The escort vessel will have ice breaking capabilities and would be able to assist in the extremely unlikely event that the ice concentration becomes a challenge for Crystal Serenity. Further, we will be working very closely with the Canadian Ice Services to monitor ice conditions to ensure they remain safe for transit.
Yes, why not copy the ship of fools.
How many blowtorches is Reggie taking with him this summer?
Way to hold these Liars, these Jerk-Off’s accountable for their hysterical Predictions!!
Geez… when has a single Prediction proven to be right?? Laughable!!
Well Done SG!!
Are you sure they don’t go by the Panama Canal?