It has been cloudy all month in eastern end of the Northwest Passage, keeping the ice from melting. However the skies did clear up briefly on August 17, and showed that Reggie still has a lot of work to do to clear this 200 km stretch.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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I was just thinking about Reggie earlier. One year ago, the Arctic Joule full of four tense young rowers was crossing the strait from the Lady Franklin Point — and was bailing out, at the not-quite-halfway mark. It took a few days to inform others of their decision, but by the 28th, they were out of the water and done.
My charts and commentary are still up:
http://www.dehavelle.com/tags/mainstreamlastfirst/
And so is their Facebook page (linked from my posts), with links to their presentation of November last year.
They managed to make the high volume of ice sound like it was caused by global warming:
I bolded the reference to the experience of “locals”—which the boys considered to be of paramount importance:
Others, however, may take note of the fact that the science undercuts most of these stories by locals.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that prior to Global Warming, the Arctic was like San Diego: Completely predictable weather.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Keith I lived the first 55 years of my life in San Diego. I almost got hit by lightning one time, so not completely predictable.
The comment about San Diego was a bit tongue in cheek. the town I lived in for 15 years is not too far north from there and is said to be one of the two US cities with “perfect” weather, the other being Lahaina on Maui.
But all of these are fairly a bit less intense than Arctic variability in the best of years.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
One of the reasons I like Yuma, Az, is that it is only three hours to the beaches in that area. The water temperature makes it a bracing experience to those who live on the desert. On the other hand I can afford to live quite well in Arizona.
Rumor has it that Team Reggie (Reggie and his entourage of CAGW believers) have been diligently adjusting the Brawndo Fueled Blow-Hard Blow-Torch of Ice Armageddon for months now. Despite all their efforts, they have been unable to “straighten-out” the blow-torch.
It is not clear what the problem is exactly, but they apparently cannot generate enough reliable power with their collection of newly developed “green energy” ignition devices to light the blow-torch and start generating some serious melt action.
The little wind mill they were using packed it in when a flock of sea gulls developed a severe case of “shredded tweet”. Their solar panels and batteries are not dealing well with the cool climate and low solar energy levels. And the experimental heliostat barely warms-up to operating temperature before another cloud drifts by.and the low ambient temperatures quickly cool it down.
Frustrating to be sure, yet surely one of them has an evil butane lighter to use on the sly? (Else how would they keep the choom fires burning?)
And yet, the worst issue has been determined to be this year’s “Brawndo Fuel”. That special Eco-sensitive blend, a green energy triumph that was funded by several hundred million in “save the climate grants”, has gelled in the drums. It seems that the soybean oil based “Brawndo fuel”, while very politically correct and approved by 97% of practicing climatologists, just isn’t compatible with Arctic summer temperatures. (maybe they can make bricks out of the stuff in the winter?)
It seems that Team Reggie and their climate acolytes are ready to declare victory and head for warmer, more hospitable regions. It doesn’t matter that they achieved nothing. It doesn’t matter that all the green energy tools were determined to be unreliable. It doesn’t matter that the green energy initiative failed miserably. It doesn’t matter that Team Reggie’s melt season was an abject failure.
They believe.
Thus Team Reggie’s victory will be declared and the announcement will be published in the media.
They just need to eat more beans…then they can power it with self generated fuel.
Your idea may have been tried last year.
There was a rumor of some horrific “fudge packing” incident with Team Reggie’s Brawndo Fueled Blow-Hard Blow-Torch of Ice Armageddon at about the time the Rowing / Wading team declared victory last year.
Details of the incident are scarce. It could have been an attempt to use GI methane (anal vapors) to facilitate low temperature ignition.
For some reason Team Reggie does not discuss that incident and the subject is immediately changed when questions are asked.
Meanwhile, in a totally alternate reality:
http://www.ecosanity.org/blogsanity/compilation-arctic-meltdown-methane-time-bomb-emergency
“And a new study has shown that, at as little as +1.5ºC of global average surface temperature increase (since pre-industrial times / pre-1900 / we’re at +0.85ºC now), the release of large amounts of methane — as much as 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100 — could become (in ecoSanity’s words) a blow torch accelerator of rapid, unstoppable, irreversible (self-perpetuated / reinforced) heat feedback. Put another way, this would be ‘GAME OVER’ ON A HORRIFIC SCALE for most life, and would persist long beyond any relevant human time frame.”
I (foolishly) googled CO2 Arctic Blow Torch and got this dreck. There’s more, all of it equally hilarious and preposterous. These people are insane if they believe their own words – which read like something out of The Onion.
Oh, it was written early this year if you do not choose to open the link but were wondering if this was written in say, 2007 or something. These people are in some kind of alternate reality; the things they claim aren’t happening, can’t happen as they describe, and will not result in any kind of GAME OVER ON A HORRIFIC SCALE….
Wow. Kooks. Lots of them.
Part of that comes from the ‘disappearing’ of the previous warm periods…which were, for the most part 2C warmer (or more) than their selected time period.
And part comes from smoking funny things…
Like dried banana peels, dosed in powdered mushrooms soaked in a wine reduction, made in a lead pot.
I enjoy poking fun at them.
That link of yours is unusually shrill in the proclamations of imminent doom.
Some excerpts:
Clear, present impacts ALREADY displace millions / KILL hundreds of thousands each year, and compromise the lives of billions RIGHT NOW. — Erm, really? Though I suppose the cool weather and record crops do have such an impact….
No less than the fate of all generations of all peoples and most species hangs in the balance TODAY. And only emergency international action at emergency (world war-time) speed FAST *may be* proportional enough to confront the scale, scope and urgency of what is ALREADY the greatest crime against humanity, most life and most future life EVER. (Compilation: Betrayal of Life.) — Right. The real crime is spouting such nonsense with no solid facts to back it up. That multitude of million dollar, failed computer-generated, fantasy climate models do not constitute “evidence”.
Ah, makes more sense now. Author of that little steamer is a former television industry employee and participates in Greenpeace events. Now an activist and likely raising money for “the cause”….
I was just casually checking to see if Reggie’s Man-Made CO2 Blowtorch had any more traction…was I in for a surprise! The kooks are still at it. Facts mean nothing to these people. Observational evidence means nothing.