Y2Kyoto: Toledo-To-Buffalo Great Prius Ice Race

Did I read the pdf correctly, and the stats are based on 1970->1990 averages? If so, wouldn't the chart be even more dramatic if 1990->2007 were included?

Did I read the pdf correctly, and the stats are based on 1970->1990 averages? If so, wouldn't the chart be even more dramatic if 1990->2007 were included?

Try it with this URL, instead.

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/gl-ches/index.htm

All this ice and cold weather each year is becoming an impediment to the global warming I and many others have been looking forward to.

Can anything be done about it? Cold weather is hard to take and is much costlier than warm weather.

I hope none go through the ice.

We'd have to point fingers over the environmental impact.

This is more what I was looking for:

http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/prods/CVCHDCTGL/20090119180000_CVCHDCTGL_0004178237.gif

So that's why a Quebec cruise ship ( I know, I questioned as well...and it's is in fact a Quebec cruise ship) and cargo ship that are stuck in the ice of the St. Lawrence today.
Canadian Coast Guard is working to free them.

Gotta luv that global warming.
Hope there are many 'greenies' inconvenienced on that cruise ship.

outside my door is the 'deep cove yacht club' with it's website live cam of the cove here in north vancouver bc....dial it in and you'll see the cove is covered in ice....which is a first...

bear in mind that this is salt water fed by a few small creeks...

A very telling chart linked is a barchart showing year to date ice coverage for the great lakes over the last 35 years. Current year coverage was exceeded only 5 years of those 35.

You guys keep forgetting...when the temperatures are above normal it is "global warming" and/or "climate change" but when it is colder than normal it's just the weather and nothing to worry about.

Ice on the Great lakes just makes it easier for Obama to walk on them.

Hey, missed this one, as I was standing on frozen Lake Simcoe all weekend.
As a hardcore icefisherman here's the sat. images we look at while waiting for the lake to totally freeze over.
The site shows up to date ice coverage of all the great lakes and then some.
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/modis/region_map.html
We've had a great year so far lots of perfect black hard ice, 19 inches out in the middle where the lake trout and whitefish swim.
Earliest and quickest ice coverage I've ever experienced.
Tight Lines

As the evidence keeps piling up against these man made global warming alarmists it is becoming great sport to watch them squirm while they come up with even more lame excuses to justify their position. Suzuki/Gore and the like. GIVE IT UP! Save what little dignity you have left and go crawl into a hole somewhere.

This 'man-made' disaster makes me wonder.

Is there any word yet on which of Suzuki's 3 houses he's giving up, to have a smaller carbon footprint?

After all, he that talks the talk, must walk the walk - to set a fine example for the rest of us.

heh.

rockyt

maybe we can ship in a few thousand tonnes of ice and crush one, then just blaim Gorebull warming

Even more dramatic, the lower Fraser River froze over for perhaps the first time in recent decades, near Fort Langley and Maple Ridge BC, for several weeks during our coldest 30-day period of weather since 1969 in this region (Dec 11 to Jan 9 being the period).
I think the ice has thawed in recent weeks but we are expecting more snow in the Vancouver area tomorrow, the winter is anything but globally warmed in western Canada.

Those Great Lakes ice cover charts look about normal for the 1970s when I was last following that climate variable, I remember there being a lot of ice on the Great Lakes in Feb-Mar of 1970, 1977 to 1979, and 1981-1982 due to very cold weather in those winter seasons. I believe that since the very mild winter of 1982-83 the ice cover statistics have decreased considerably, until this winter (and possibly one or two others like 1993-94, that was a colder winter than this one in the Great Lakes region).

Lake Ontario, by the way, almost never freezes over except for the part already shown as frozen. The rest of the lake froze in 1934 during an exceptionally cold February, but this has not happened shore to shore since then.

and Dr. Mengele Suzuki. we know you live near the kitsalano boat club.

and the taxes you pay on those nice digs.

Before I became edumacted, I sailed on Texaco tankers on the Great Lakes and east coast during the early 70's. Winters were cold, lots of snow and ice in the St Lawrence river was a serious problem.

Ice broke away from shore in Lake St Francis (Three Rivers area) and pushed a Brit container ship right out of the channel, where it remained stuck in the mud, until late spring before it could be freed. Even our ship got stuck right under the Quebec bridge and had to wait for a DOC ice breaker to dig us out.

We spent the spring of 1972 pounding through pack ice off the coast of Nova Scotia, until late June. You could see the lights of all the "parked" ships at night, while the John A MAcDonald chugged around carving channels in the ice to free them.

Please don't use the term "prius" in polite company. I did have the opportunity to cut one off on I80 this morning which started the first day back from vacation off exactly right. Why do the people who choose to telegraph their political proclivities by driving those sxxtwagons have dangling lower lips that wobble in time with the expansion cracks?