Nobel Prize winner Al Gore says the Arctic will be ice free in a few weeks, but Environment Canada shows both ends of the Northwest Passage blocked with ice.
Ninety-seven percent of climate experts agree with Al Gore, so the only rational conclusion is that Environment Canada are engaging in heresy against the global warming religion.
Has anyone really tried this summer to make the passage? I remember a list of those that tried and failed in the past when they were going to highlight the effects of global warming. Most of them ended up with frozen bums or frostbite. None of them made it. Is there anyone we can make fun of this year?
Well, just sit tight, and you’ll have a whole ship o’ fools to make fun of:
What: Northwest Passage cruise
Details: Crystal Cruises plans its first 900-mile Northwest Passage cruise from Alaska to New York City
When: The cruise sails from Aug. 16 to Sept. 17, 2016.
Price: Starting at $19,755 per person, double occupancy.
Ref: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-crystal-cruises-northwest-passage-20140717-story.html
Hopefully they’ll get stuck, and miss the 2016 Presidential election. Can’t imagine that they’d vote for anyone that I would.
Rah, yep. And they’re stuck in ice:
http://cornellsailing.com/2014/08/the-waiting-game/
Here’s the original puff piece on the BBC complete with claims about highlighting the imminent doom of human caused thermageddon:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28247175
Note that he’s taken his 14 and 15 year old kids with him too…
They were stuck on August 2nd but got out and are now a safe distance from the ice and their latest comments are: “We are still waiting for the ice situation to improve” “the ice charts are looking increasingly promising”
However, they can’t bring themselves to admit they are pooched for a 2014 crossing unless Super Reggie and his amazing blow thingy comes to the rescue and toasts the arctic until it is done like diner 😉
Thanks Stewart – where did you see the latest comments?
Sorry, just realised you’re reading the same blog. I still read that as them being trapped one way or the other!
Are these the fool’s the coast guard fished of the sail boat shut hard and fast in the ice ????
Actually it’s grand-daughter…and there are several family members involved.
Here’s her account of the ice…
http://cornellsailing.com/2014/08/beset-in-ice/
Thanks to all of you. Clicked every link. I guess it would be a great adventure but I think it is plain irresponsible to do it just to say you did when there are such strong odds that your going to get into trouble. Costs a lot of money to rescue these people and I would bet sometimes the lives of the rescuers are placed in danger. Foolishly selfish really.
I’m not bothered by people doing it, so long as they pay their own costs.
If there is anyone that has a good shot of being able to get himself out of trouble, it’s Jimmy Cornell. He’s got the experience on the water and knowledge of the sea that dwarfs most of the others attempting it, by at least an order of magnitude.
But, I think he may be laboring under some false notions as to why it should be done…
Human hostages….he figures they’ll go to extremes to rescue them, if they mention the children…
There are eight of us onboard, so who are we?
Jimmy needs no introduction. There’s myself, Doina, Jimmy’s daughter, and my own daughter Nera. Completing our family is Marianne Aschenbrenner, my cousin.
Since half the crew is family, I think it looks more like a ‘family vacation’ than anything else…which brings to mind those movies, back in the ’80s… 😀
“Since half the crew is family,”
– OK. I always wanted to say this….
‘It’s worse than we thought!’
Looks like there are quite a few idiots getting stuck this year:
http://northwestpassage2014.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/sv-altan-girl-requests-help-from-uscgc.html
If the Nobel-prize winning team of Al Gore and the UN’s IPCC say it, you can be certain it is ABSOLUTE TRUTH!
Here’s why:
http://judithcurry.com/2014/08/09/week-in-review-23/#comment-616476
How times have changed
In 1988 Former Canadian Minister of the Environment Christine Stewart told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald, “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony … climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
And 4 years later…
At the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Climate Summit former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth, D-Colo. then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S. undersecretary of state for global issues agreed, “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
The Canadians appear to have learned the lesson.
Now USA it’s your turn.
I am hoping for a polar vortex and major snow storms hitting in late October early November before this years voting. Followed by sky high electric bills and blackout/brownouts leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
I may get my wish, at least on the blackouts:
WUWT: America’s Power Grid at the Limit: The Road to Electrical Blackouts By Steve Goreham
Scuttle butt??
Some of what Steve Goreham did not address (because it is not his job, because he is not aware of them, or it does not ‘help’ his cause) is the expansion of gas pipeline infrastructure in the that part of the world.
Reading these ‘pieces’ one would think the situation was ‘static’ and unchanging, and that is not the case. He does make some good points about coal being able to be stored on-site vs the impracticality of natural gas to be stored the same way, but, via a technique known as ‘linepack’ natural gas under high pressure is effectively stored in pipelines vs discrete tank farms as is done with liquid fuels.
Some of the problems lat winter were also due to nat gas plant freeze-ups; nat gas requires some amount of processing to remove other components (e.g. water, other light hydrocarbons) that are subject to freezing in pipeline systems of the nat gas is not of high enough purity.
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Something you may want to be apprised of: The carrot and the stick both to be used to ‘motivate’ participating QSE’s (Qualified Service Entities or active generation sources) to ready their equipment for winter conditions.
PJM to Hike Penalties, Incentives to Improve Winter Reliability, August 5, 2014
I could copy the WHOLE article as the entire article is germane to ‘rectifying’ issues that affect reliability (spell that as ‘blackouts’ to the consuming public) but will only include a few excerpts below as well as the topical categories addressed, which are:
Winter is Coming – Intro’ing the Carrot and the Stick plan
Redefinition of Capacity
Fuel Security
More Flexible Operations
Insufficient Penalties
‘Enhanced’ Liaison Committee Process
Arbitrage Technical Conference
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Opening excerpt:
A few words about Fuel Security (better titled ‘Fuel Scarcity’ maybe)
And a bit on More Flexible Operations – IOW, ALL the problems encountered are not strictly technical (like lack of nat gas or fuel) but also encompass the human or personnel side of things:
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We can be thankful that there is a Conservative Federal Government in charge of Environment Canada. They are not pushing the global warming propaganda. K. Wynne, Liberal leader and Premier in Ontario, on the other hand, would tell you there is a danger of palm trees & gators…
I have never met a more blatant liar.
Maurice Strong, Al Gore, David Suzuki, Mikey Mann, Jimmy Hansen….
The one thing the CAGW/greenies have in common is they lie through their teeth in support of the CAUSE™
Living in Ontario I agree. The recent election had sickening attack hads lieing about the Progressive Conservative leader. It was a low point in Canadian politics.
Don’t forget the Saint Roch (Rock), who’s crew sailed her through the Arctic both ways during WWII. They made the return voyage from Halifax to Vancouver through the more northerly northwest passage in a record 86 days. The twentieth century belonged to Canada, as Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier predicted.