Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer. (So did Britain’s BBC network) This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled Northwest Passage.
As a former sailboat owner I can understand their excitement, but my heart aches for the agonies they now face. The Arctic sea ice suddenly expanded 60 percent this fall, after the coldest summer in the modern Alaska temperature record. The passage is now impassable. More than a dozen of the boats are trapped, apparently even including a group of tiny American jet-ski “personal watercraft” that were attempting to cross from the east coast of Russia to the North Atlantic. Arctic observers are now warning that even Canadian icebreakers might not be able to rescue them.
Heh.
(h/t Rita)
Maybe we’ll see some Darwin Awards nominees early this year.
At least now the polly bears won’t starve.
Oh yes I as well can barely contain myself from all of this aching my heart is doing.
Let them freeze in the dark…
Yeah, I have lots of aches and pains,but not in my heart after reading this tale of stupidity.
And I suppose that once again,Canadian taxpayers will have to pay the cost of rescuing their frozen asses.
I have been following the Ice Pack since this story came about 2 weeks ago. Cape Bathurst had 1/10 ice with some open water behind it, now there is no open water. Prince Regent inlet is choked with ice thereby rendering the Strait of Bellot useless. The lucky boaters have had their crafts lifted by crane to sit on tundra for one year or more as no one can predict with certainty, the next ice pack. These sailors are now filling their diapers trying to suggest that they are commercial boats and therefore under treaty and law, entitled to ice breakers from the Canadian Government. Tell you what you bunch of pantloads, have the the scienceturds who told you that the ice was gone forever pay for your ice breaking and your storage fees. Did you ever notice that the eskimos up there never give up their fur coats? Just sayin’.
Don’t eat the canned food?
That’s what I’ve been telling myself ever since I started buying canned emergency food in 2008. The canned cake is unbelievably delicious and I had forgotten about it, after a short taste test, until I read this thread title. Still though, I will restrain myself. Probably for the best. I think it will be needed next year or the year after at latest.
The stupid, it burns like frostbite.
Fine ’em for littering the arctic with their marooned boats. Charge ’em for the rescue and for being so stupid…
ah yes, the ICE THIS FALL, fall ain’t here yet, so the idiot writing the article, is he a boater stuck up there in the land of perpetual summer??????
Sierra Club Canada. Old Ojibwa words meaning “tick-who-get-blood-by-screaming”.
NME66, fall has already started in the Arctic, Frobisher Bay (the govt calls it Iqaluit now) will only see 12hrs 40mins of sunlight today not the 24hrs it saw in June. Take away >45% of the suns energy and things start to get real cold, real quick. In December you can watch the northern lights at 3:30pm. I have seen blizzards in early October in Frobisher Bay which is south of the Arctic Circle.
As to the pleasure craft that will be destroyed by the ice, I hope the insurance companies refuse to pay out and the boaters should be charged for the cleanup of the wreckage. Make them pay for their stupidity and maybe they’ll stop unquestionably believing what the global warmists say.
And so reality is coming home to roost for all the Climate fraudsters.
The truth is a wonderful thing.
Hilarious title, if you know the context. Look up “Franklin’s lost expedition”.
Just because some boats get frozen in the ice does not mean the propaganda machine that is the AGW humping popular press is going to stop. I heard a brief story on CBC yesterday the moral being ‘global warming’. I watched a show about coral reefs on TV last night the moral being ‘global warming’. I watched another show on TV last night, the moral of the story ‘gay is good’. The funny part was how lame the tie ins were. Not that the target market is going to notice mind you but I found it almost like the writers had run out of ideas before they ran out of time and threw this in as filler.
The demonstrating scientists in Vancouver were telling anyone who would listen that Harper was determined to shut them up about ‘global warming’.
All this simply demonstrates that people will say or do whatever it takes to feed themselves. In the case of weather ‘alarmists’ it is all about government funded jobs that will keep them. I haven’t seen many ‘Help Wanted’ ads by private firms looking for weather scientists. Do the math after realizing how many graduates in these types of programs come onto the job market each year. If government does not fund programs these people do not work.
Kate / Other contributors
Andrew Montford (otherwise known as Bishop Hill) has an article up at the National Post. I’ve been commenting.
The link is:
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/09/19/meaningless-consensus-on-climate-change/
Cheers
JE
What was the name of that idiot in Ontario who claimed that the Arctic would be ice-free this summer? He then wrote to this blog implying that we were ignorant and stupid. Stupid pup that he was. I will say, of him and others, that climate scientists are fourth-raters. Maybe the “eminent climate scientists” might reach the third rank, and of course Freeman Dyson is a rather great man, but for the rest, they are dismal little nobodies who are addicted to the limelight.
Lysenko seems to have been very much of that sort.
In regard to the vessels trapped by the ice, once again the erroneous predictions of “climate scientists” have put people in harm’s way.
Nothing like lead to make the food go down.
Lead poisoning? The left went mad when the twin towers came down.. Left behind holding the multicultural bag they had to redefine themselves in a hurry.. Green was already up and running so they all jumped on board and declared their own war to save the planet from CO2..
The 2008 crash was a direct result of funding both the war on terror and the war to save the planet at the same time.. Both left and right spending as if the other side doesn’t exist at all.. Where did all the money go?. It was put into a pile and set on fire at a political rally..
If…
The right had not run off to war and given the left the chance to digest their multicultural stomach problems, the last 10 years would have turned out very different.. Leaving them standing at the station with no destination in mind was a recipe for disaster..
What did you expect them to do, give up politics?
I fel no pity for these followers of the false Global warming Religion. This is what comes of idol worship, instead of rationality. Superstition, in the name of a bogus science.
That said I wouldn’t want to see any of them hurt. , except their pride.
Why are you still watching? I’m amazed people that still do.
Surely they wouldn’t want icebreakers powered by fossil fuels to rescue them, would they? Solar powered icebreakers or nothing!
Their blood, when/if it thaws, will be on AlGore’s hands. His incessant brook-no-dissent insistence that ice melt would cause compounded catastrophe is the prime reason these young worthies set out to explore the Arctic clad in only swimmies and PWC. How do you sleep at night, Al, with all their gore on your conscience?