The Northwest Passage after decades of so-called global warming has a dramatic 60% more Arctic ice this year than at the same time last year. The future dreams of dozens of adventurous sailors are now threatened. A scattering of yachts attempting the legendary Passage are caught by the ice, which has now become blocked at both ends and the transit season may be ending early.
Any yacht owners needing rescue need to pay the cost or lose the yacht. I don’t mind paying taxes for helping people going about their business, but I’m not subsidizing idiot adventurers.
These folks are what drives up insurance costs.
Let them drift as navigation hazards to those pesky Danes always invading Hans Island…
“The real question is if and when the Canadian Coast Guard(CCG) decides to take early action to help the yachts exit the Arctic before freeze-up… or will they wait until it becomes an emergency rescue operation?”
Hopefully neither. And if they do need rescuing,a check for $100,000.00 first,or tough titties.I’m tired and PO’d of seeing my tax money wasted to save these idiots.It’s the Arctic,aholes.And it is not warming!
” The crew of the rowboat ARCTIC JOULE have been spoon feeding some mighty bad methane gas to the Media saying they can row in the Arctic because GLOBAL WARMING is melting the ice.”
This site has been tracking the Artic Joule. Interesting reading.
I think ‘Joule’ is French for a unit of energy and rhymes with ‘fool’.
http://northwestpassage2013.blogspot.ca/2013/07/arctic-joule-rowboat-progress-stopped.html
So, I read this and decided to follow up on one of the yachts. I chose Dodo’s Delight(GBR) for obvious reasons.
“Whilst we are protected, and have now found good holding (for the anchor), cabin fever is now on the cards. Five people, all with very different characters, on a small boat which is damp, condensation running everywhere, food staples being tinned varieties and the constant movement is bound to bring friction. We did buy two loaves of bread from the Native Store in Point Hope yesterday – US$10 a loaf! Our living area is little bigger than a garden shed or small bathroom.”
Hmmmm. Delightful!
Article here:
http://northwestpassage2013.blogspot.com/2013/08/dodos-delight-worst-ice-in-89-years.html
The canned food one liner in relation to the Franklin expedition/ships in arctic ice was a piece of fine wit Kate me girl.
“Operation empty chair” likewise.
I guess the level of self-actuated retardation and zombie herding instinct we see in the news every day forces one to become a satirist. You have a well developed sense of satire Kate which leads me to believe you have a long exposure to MSM.
AGW alarmist responds.
“But, But it’s New Ice, it’s only Old Ice that counts.”
I stole Operation Empty Chair from some guy on twitter, but thanks all the same.
Isn’t this Darwinism in action? Time to cull the herd.
Human kindness demands that even foolish, reckless people have to be rescued. Obviously there should be some fees charged to discourage other adventurers from wasting taxpayer money. Make them pay the government for the fuel AND carbon offsets for the roundtrip by the ice breakers.
Did any of the boats actually make it? If they get freed by icebreakers, here’s betting that they will count it as a successful crossing.
Get out the auger and jigging raps and have a good ice fishing season.
Lucky bastards.
The lads limped into Cambridge Bay and have called it quits.
It seems being imbued with desire to stop climate change trumped any planning skills and actual knowledge of the Arctic and especially Arctuc weather.
This little expedition has been a group cluster f:@k from the get go. The price of a cheap greenie propaganda victory has been paid in day after day of embarrassing failure as they dragged their very poorly designed boat along shorelines, battled ice they believed wouldn’t be there that ended with their surrender to the Arctic Gaia entity.
Nice lads, but their common sense was overwhelmed by the massive amounts of Eco Greenie Do Gooder Kool Aide they have chugged.
Full circle:
They were daft to begin with.
Don’t eat the canned food!
But feel free to eat one another, a la the Franklin Expedition.
What favill said, and the monkeys still believe in AGW.
Nice one liner, “Don’t eat the canned food”.
I bet not one of them learned a lesson from this? Will still be shrill global warming activists in the face of reality.
Loved the tile Kate.
You know your history I see.
Witty and a woman of integrity, notwithstanding her pining for a senate seat :-).
Lead poising was a factor but apparently not from the tins:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2013/04/08/north-franklin-lead-theory-study.html
Gee one day you’re just a rich old moneyed yuppy Liberal reading some un-sourced Associated Press propaganda about how all the ice is gone with Lakes at the North Pole from an author who has never been out to nature.
The next thing you know you’re trying to navigate through the hazards of the Arctic in your luxury yacht.
Its truly such a tragedy, I just don’t know how I’ll fall asleep tonight.
One more thing caused by global warming, demented idiots swarming the Arctic like so many Disney’s lemmings. No wonder the polar bears are doing so well.
I don’t know why they don’t just turn North,and sail into that warm Arctic sea that was so popular in theory before the Franklin expedition.
And, as said earlier, if they have to be rescued,charge ’em the full cost,taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for this foolishness.
Oh yeah,and while you’re waiting for rescue,guys,don’t forget to go get some nice commemorative photos of yourselves standing right next to those harmless polar bears.
// The real question is if and when the Canadian Coast Guard(CCG) decides to take early action to help the yachts exit the Arctic before freeze-up… or will they wait until it becomes an emergency rescue operation? //
Bitchy tourists.
But, as this article from last year points out
Canada’s not ready to have the World in the Arctic
// The World is the largest privately owned yacht on the planet. Flagged in the Bahamas, the 196-metre vessel is essentially a luxury condo complex, with 165 units valued at up to $13-million each.
Later this month, the ship will transit the Northwest Passage […]
So far, the World is the largest passenger vessel to sail the Northwest Passage. But dozens of much larger cruise ships already visit Greenland and Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago. They include the 3,780-passenger Costa Pacifica, the sister ship of the Costa Concordia, which ran onto the rocks off Italy earlier this year.
It’s clear that Canada’s search-and-rescue capabilities require an emergency upgrade.
[…] hollowing-out of Canada’s search-and-rescue capabilities could not happen at a worse time, because Arctic shipping is increasing at an almost exponential rate. In the century between 1906 and 2006, there were only 69 transits of the Northwest Passage. In 2010, there were 18 transits; last year, there were 22. //
What was the name of that group of “lads” that were so full of ………???
Better yet … what was the twitter or FB site that the inhabited?
I feel inclined to go a mocking.
I can see a market here for Brainwashed stupidity insurance. The personal assurance from Gore/Suzuki/IPCC, that the arctic would be ice free any day now should be good for a lawsuit just as good as spilling hot coffee in your lap. Worth a try…if they live through this.
Let them eat global warming for another month.
In defense of the few yachtsmen experienced enough to even consider adventuring in yon northern waters, it’s hard to really blame them for attempting their trips. NOAA and all the other various and sundry government agencies and ministries responsible for supplying them with charts and meteorological info etc. are heavily into this AGW stuff.
That said, the average know-nothing voter is heavily invested in this as well. Maybe if the taxpayer has to foot the bill for a bunch of expensive rescues, it might help drive the point home that the Arctic isn’t actually melting?
The ecomentalist rowers on the other hand make me laugh.
A friend recently returned from an attempt to transit the Northwest Passage, east to west. It was a commercial ship, carrying about 100 passengers plus crew. Aboard were many retired academics and global warming adherents. One of the lectures given during this truncated cruise dwelt upon how global warming was somehow the reason for the increase in sea ice and their inability to complete the voyage. Of course, many if not most, heads nodded in agreement.
My friend found it interesting, however, that when a few statistics from the cruise were trotted out, eg: 110 tonnes of fuel oil used by the ship (about 1 tonne per passenger) and 650 litres of gasoline for the Zodiacs, most of those in attendance suddenly fell silent and had a sudden interest in their shoes.
The hypocrisy is stunning!
Ya don’t suppose Al Gore could borrow his buddy John Kerry’s yacht and sail up there to rescue all his supporters?
The Very Warmista British paper, the London Daily Mail, has several belly-laugh warmist masterpiece articles today. The first is “Cooling of the Pacific has slowed pace of global warming as changes in ocean currents absorb excess heat” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2405308/Cooling-Pacific-slowed-pace-global-warming-changes-ocean-currents-absorb-excess-heat.html.
This states that the La Nina cycle is causing a “pause” in global warming by having the Pacific Ocean act as a heat sink. The La Nina cycle is the flip side of the El Nino cycle, which so far as science knows, has been going on for millenia. Why all of a sudden this is causing an oceanic heat sink is, um, vague. It also falsely claims “Nine of the 10 warmest years since records began have been since 2000”. Actually, the 1930s Dust Bowl years were hotter, but whatever…
Other articles linked about halfway down within this article state that 1. “…experts at Aarhus University in Denmark say that by 2100, Greenland will have huge forests like those in Western Canada and Alaska”. Then, 2. “Is it crunch time for global warming? Apples are ‘losing their bite and becoming sweeter’ because of climate change”.
If you’re not convulsed in laughter yet, this’ll do it: “…A U.N. panel of scientists, the main authority on global warming, will issue a report on Sept. 26 in Stockholm. Drafts show it is likely to raise the probability that human activities are the main cause of climate change to ‘extremely likely’, or a 95 per cent chance.”
That hot round ball in the sky, with it’s natural radiation cycles, has nothing to do with anything apparently. It’s all due to our Evil Western Fords, Chevys, air conditioners, lawnmowers and BBQs!
The Warmist BS is getting deeper and deeper…must be time for grant renewals…
http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/?slide=home
Unrepentant AGW adherents after being blocked by the ice over the past 8 weeks. All because northerners tell them about the changing climate. The folks in the north are polite and tend to tell southerners the things they want to hear. “Tell us about the changing climate” and northerners are happy to oblige.
agreed 110% best headline nominee – mr. razor, you took the words out of my mouth.