In 2008, Lewis Pugh tried to Kayak to the North Pole from Svalbard. He made it about 2% of the way to the pole, before he was forced to turn around by ice and cold.
The MSM dutifully reported his spectacular failure as a victory against global warming.
The ice on that side of the Arctic always extends about 1,000 km from the pole, even in winter.
Just as the rest of the world (including Huffington Post) figures out that global warming is a scam, Obama decides to use it as an excuse to further wreck the US economy.
Obama humiliates himself on the world stage, yet again.
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One month ago today, Obama told us that he had won the war on terror – and it was over.
Last week Obama told us that spying on Americans had stopped dozens of terror attacks, and that they need to keep spying on Americans as part of the ongoing war on terror.
Rowers’ attempt through Arctic’s Northwest Passage to highlight climate change
four men are set to embark Canada Day on an 80-day rowboat journey through the most cantankerous climate zone on the planet in the spirit of adventure and in an effort to reveal the shocking effects of climate change on the Arctic.
Meet the crew: There’s Kevin Vallely, an architect whose adventure resume includes some of Canada’s most harrowing expeditions; Paul Gleeson, an Irish cyclist and rower; and award-winning Canadian environmental filmmaker Frank Wolf. The fourth is Denis Barnett, also Irish and a team rookie who Vallely says brings “the wide-eyed enthusiasm of a neophyte” to the expedition
The 3,000-kilometre journey in an eight-metre rowboat will begin in Inuvik and wind through Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories to Pond Inlet, Nunavut. Along the way, they’ll contend with deadly threats such as unexpected storms, wild animals and bitter cold.
Rowers’ attempt through Arctic’s Northwest Passage to highlight climate change
They are leaving one week from tomorrow, and the entire route is choked with ice.
23 June 2013
Melting ice has opened up the Northern Sea Route along Russia’s Arctic coastline, changing international trade patterns in profound ways — even if so far it looks more like a sleepy county road than a busy, four-lane highway.
In a change of potentially revolutionary significance, the travel time between the Japanese port of Yokohama and Hamburg in Germany has been cut by 40 percent, while fuel expenditure is down by 20 percent.
Just one minor problem. The entire Russian coastline is blocked with ice.
Originally the ice was supposed to be gone in 2013
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’
But Wadhams has granted the ice a two year reprieve
“in 2015-16 ….. the summer Arctic (August to September) would become ice-free. The final collapse towards that state is now happening and will probably be complete by those dates”.
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Summer sea ice extent is the highest since 2002, with record summer cold in the Arctic
The Drought That Ravaged US Crops Is Only Going to Get Worse | Mother Jones
As usual, NOAA got it exactly backwards
May 23, 2013
The “Global War on Terror” is over, President Barack Obama announced Thursday,
Obama: ‘Global War on Terror’ Is Over – US News and World Report
That was right before he told us that he needs to track every American’s phone and E-mail as part of the War On Terror.
