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Global Warming strikes again!

 

Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, December 28, 2013, 9:17 AM

 

A Russian expedition ship carrying global warming scientists got stuck in ice earlier this week. Now a Chinese ice breaker sent to rescue the scientists is frozen too just miles away.

South Pole weather has stymied a rescue by a Chinese icebreaker trying to reach an expedition vessel trapped for the past four days in frozen seas, a ship officer told CNN Friday.

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, was just six nautical miles away from the rescue, but now it’s stuck in an Antarctica ice floe, too.

The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship.

But it’s likely the French vessel Astrolabe will also be slowed by the polar cap’s extreme frigidity, Zhu said.

Those two icebreakers — plus a third, from Australia — were battling the planet’s coldest environment in trying to reach the stranded Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, whose 74 researchers, crew and tourists remained in good condition despite being at a frozen standstill since Monday.

 

More: http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...apped-in-antarctica/

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Originally Posted by direstraits:

In 1912, when Mawson landed, the area was ice free.  Now, global warming has frozen the bay -- the ice is thicker than usual.

 

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...-trapped-by-sea-ice/

 

I don't wish anyone harm. However, this bunch are examples of the Darwin Effect in action.

Let me get this straight: Global warming is to blame for THICKER THAN NORMAL ice?????

Those who have paid attention to news reports will know that much of the thickness of the ice at that location was caused by floating ice being driven s****ward by the wind and piling up there.

 

We see in the initial post more of the silliness of self-anointed experts who cite  transient localized weather phenomena as proof that global climate change is not occurring.

Originally Posted by Contendah:

Those who have paid attention to news reports will know that much of the thickness of the ice at that location was caused by floating ice being driven s****ward by the wind and piling up there.

 

We see in the initial post more of the silliness of self-anointed experts who cite  transient localized weather phenomena as proof that global climate change is not occurring.


Yes, and I'm sure the huge increase in Artic ice is due to northward winds piling up ice; your wackidoodlyness. 

 

Seems like I remember Sandy being blamed on climate change by the left, Mr. Pot.

 

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EDMONTON —Not in at least 450,000 years has Greenland been sufficiently ice-free to support a thriving forest, says new research by an international team of scientists.

The team looked at the bottoms of ice core samples from the two-kilometre thick ice sheets on Greenland. Researchers then analyzed the DNA found in these silty sections of the cores to see if they could identify and plants and animals from that era.

The DNA they found showed that southern Greenland had a boreal forest on it some time between 450,000 to 800,000 years before present, said University of Alberta glaciologist Martin Sharp, who participated in the research.

“The dominant tree species were things like spruce and pine, some members of the yew family and also things like alder,” he said. “Most of those, with the exception of yew, you could find in Whitemud Creek today.”

In fact, the yew is a tree species that won’t tolerate temperatures below minus -17 C, so this was a forest with a warmer climate than found in modern-day Edmonton.

http://www.canada.com/edmonton...76-895d-55322db12c7f

 

I guess the old troglodytes exhaled a lot and fed their pet mastodons beans.

 

A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis of ice core records suggests that Antarctic temperatures may have been up to 6°C warmer than the present day. The study also found that during the last warm period, about 125,000 years ago, the sea level was around 5 metres higher than today.

http://www.science20.com/news_...lacials_once_thought

Have sea levels risen, yes! Have they risen to the projected levels, no!    Melting ice on land, Greenland, will raise sea levels.  Melting ice on water will not raise sea levels.  Freezing expands the H20 volume, melting decreases the volume. 

 

Again, there were extreme warming periods -- during the high point of the West Roman Empire's expansion and during the medieval era. Which was punctuated by very cold eras -- the last called the Little Ice Age.  Human activity didn't cause those warming periods.  And, didn't cause the last one, which appears to be stabilizing and will decline. 

Originally Posted by Mr. Hooberbloob:

Then put your words into action Crash.  Get off the grid, sell destroy your car, and live a carbon free life.  Otherwise, YOU'RE part of the problem YOU believe this world has.  Put up or shut up.

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hoob.. do you ever make any rational statements?

small minds always attack the messenger.

wise minds look for answers/solutions to problems.

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