What’s Bothering Them?

The rowers seem to be stalling. Why don’t they just get out there and row through that one hundred mile wide patch of 70-100% concentration ice blocking their path?

Before they left, they told everyone that global warming made their trip possible.

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17 Responses to What’s Bothering Them?

  1. Adm. Villeneuve says:

    In 1969 the heavily reinforced oil tanker SS Manhattan completed a transit of the Northwest Passage. Not easily, of course, but they at least had the sense to take along the largest CCG and USCG ice breakers in service. In total, four ice breakers were deployed to assist the effort at various points before the transit was completed. How many would be required in 2013?

    • Environment Canada shows that western Arctic ice is the second or third highest July coverage on record.

    • Jason Calley says:

      I remember reading articles perhaps 45 years ago that climate seemed to have a 60 or 70 year cycle of warm to cold to warm again. Certainly a lot of “climate sceptics” are still aware of the various cycles. That being the case, the question is not so much “How many icebreakers would it take to traverse the NW Passage in 2013?” but rather, “How many icebreakers will it take in 2034 (65 years after 1969)?”

      My guess is “about four.”

    • Jimbo says:

      How many ice breakers were required in the 1920 and 1930s? Is it just a cycle?

      Abstract
      The Early Twentieth-Century Warming in the Arctic—A Possible Mechanism

      The huge warming of the Arctic that started in the early 1920s and lasted for almost two decades is one of the most spectacular climate events of the twentieth century. During the peak period 1930–40, the annually averaged temperature anomaly for the area 60°–90°N amounted to some 1.7°C…..
      dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017%3C4045:TETWIT%3E2.0.CO;2

      Abstract
      The regime shift of the 1920s and 1930s in the North Atlantic

      During the 1920s and 1930s, there was a dramatic warming of the northern North Atlantic Ocean. Warmer-than-normal sea temperatures, reduced sea ice conditions and enhanced Atlantic inflow in northern regions continued through to the 1950s and 1960s, with the timing of the decline to colder temperatures varying with location. Ecosystem changes associated with the warm period included a general northward movement of fish……
      dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2006.02.011

      Monthly Weather Review October 10, 1922.
      The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explores who sail the seas about Spitsbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface….

      In August, 1922, the Norwegian Department of Commerce sent an expedition to Spitsbergen and Bear Island under Dr. Adolf Hoel, lecturer on geology at the University of Christiania. The oceanographic observations (reported that) Ice conditions were exceptional. In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81o 29′ in ice-free water. This is the farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus…..”
      docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf

      Temperature check of the daily mean temperature and climate north of the 80th northern parallel, as a function of the day of year. It is at record low! Were are all doomed.
      http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

      • Andy DC says:

        The claim of warming in the early 20th century is just folklore from primitive man during an earlier time, when there were no models, no satellites, no supercomputers, no brilliant MIT climate scientists, no settled science and no agenda. How can that information possibly be trusted?

  2. Billy NZ says:

    That’s what you get for sending boys to do a man’s job.Tell them to toughen the f$k up and get rowing.I thought it was going to be a breeze.

  3. Jack Savage says:

    The are unable to row through it because adverse winds are likely keeping their huge sail of a boat pinned against a lee shore. Rather than “raising” our “awareness” they may be learning one or two things themselves. With a shallow draught boat that high in the water and only two rowers you are going to need very calm weather or a following wind in order to make any progress at all.

    • Richard Lynch says:

      Correct. As they put it themselves: “The Arctic Joule tips is close to 1200kgs fully loaded and for the power output – two rowers – exposes lots of surface to the wind. Into a strong blow she simply comes to a stop.”

  4. Chewer says:

    I like the picture they shoe on their web site of the Arctic last September-:)
    They were fed absolute propaganda backed by wishful thinking and spectacular bull shit and their trip is the cheapest and best entertainment available this summer…

  5. hazze says:

    In their latest update they say they have gone into “deep patience” like the inuits. Evrything is normal in the arctic..waiting..ice..patience. Stop it..soon they be in deep freeze…deep shit..deep trouble…as well as deep patience.

  6. Don Allen says:

    Although I have not been impressed lately, they have made some progress today.

  7. Andy says:

    Why did they start so early? If they had left for the start of August then a lot more ice would have melted out and they would have rowed more than actually dragging the boat over ice.

    This smacks of that trip to the north pole which wasn’t the northpole but actually the geomagnetic northpole and not even that, the geomagnetic pole years back.

    People are just using climate change as a way to con sponsorship out of firms when they are just on a jolly.

    Why not simply just go around the NW passage and have a beer and tell your mates?

    Load of bollocks

    Andy

  8. hazze says:

    Oops…they are catching up…if i look at the satwiev….seems like they rowdragged it over a lot of land over to Eskimo lakes….wish they could tell us if they have wheels under it 🙂

    • B.C. says:

      Maybe they had a poley bear close on their heels to give them a little incentive “tail wind” to break their “deep patience”? Patience may be a virtue, but not when an 1,100-pound carnivore is attempting to make you his breakfast.

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