Anthony Watts gets internal memos he’s not expected to see:
“Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in U.S. Arctic waters to enable researchers time to gather the ecosystem data essential to managing a sustainable fishery.”
From the comments there – Oooguruk Island June 23rd 2009
| “This is at an oil development (Oooguruk – Inupiat for “Bearded Seal”) which my company found in the shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea (yes, I work for an oil company – but it’s not big oil – it’s small oil – only 15 employees : Geologist (with a meteorological background) -Skeptical & damn proud of it! ) “ |
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Spectacular. Ice driven by a full moon tide can be very destructive. Just in a large inland lake (Manitoba Lake Winnipeg and Lake Winnipegosis) the tides cause multi-mile long cracks in 3 foot thick ice. The cracks can widen out to 6 to 8 feet across making traveling very hazardous. The report when this phenomenon occurs can be heard for miles.
Tides scchmides everyone knows that AGW makes the oceans rise. Probably the result of all the glaciers melting in Greenland and Antarctica.
Holy $hite! Clear and irrefutable evidence of destructive AGW. Sort of like Katrina. Nyarf, nyarf.
“The area involved — roughly 200,000 square miles of ocean north of the Bering Strait — has no commercial fisheries yet, but it could if the seasonal Arctic ice pack continues to melt.”
OMG. These NOAA nerds sure are good. They are going to find out the impact of commercial fisheries in an area that has NO fisheries!!! Maybe they can help us figure out the cause of why AGW/CC cultists and lefturds are brain dead, since they can study something that doesn’t exist.
As long as they are paying for construction of the fisheries with their own money and working there themselves… have at it! Haha. Happy fishing.
Global Warming
Climate Change
one of those cases where a beautiful theory is ruined by ugly facts.
Haven’t any of you city slickers heard of ice fishing?
Of course we know what ice fishing is!! It’s what you do with your swizzle stick in a mixed drink. Ice fishing indeed!!
I wonder how we will get those fish out of that fishery and to world markets without oil to transport them? Hot air balloons filled with green socialism rhetoric? Please check your supermarkets regularly for those Artic Sea treats, due to hit the shelves sometime this century.
Allow me to reduce the green socialism agenda to its simplest terms, if I may…
“Please cease all industrial development. Transfer your wealth to your trusted leaders, and would 15/16 of you mind expiring immediately please. Conservatives first, of course.”
kakola….ice fishing? Ummmmmmmm. You may have a great business plan. With AGW/CC, ice will be a very expensive rarity for the eco-cultists margaritas. What? You don’t mean that kind of ice fishing? Oh well.
My parents still own that log cabin where I grew up. The snow is usually 4′ thick in winter, and they have to come there from the city 1-2 times in order to shovel snow from the roof so that it kind of does not cave in. The only way to get into the yard from the ploughed road is by cross country ski. If you talk to the locals about global warming, they’ll probably say ‘I wish there was one!’
Aaron….you mean the log cabin you helped build in which you were born 🙂
Jeez. June 23rd 2009…
That’s gotta raise the pucker factor.
Looks like another attempt to stall oil exploration…. eh?
All I could think of was the futility at which the people here tried to stem the wave of ice. Against the might of its unstopable movement.
The enviromental lunitics actually think they can command forces like this?
The planet worshippers invert Einstien
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” -Albert Einstein to “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts to phoney lies.” -Albert Einstein
JMO
The power of ice!
What many maybe don’t realise is that real world ice, as opposed to that in your refruigerator, is a rock, like granite, but that floats
“he power of ice!
What many maybe don’t realise is that real world ice, as opposed to that in your refruigerator, is a rock, like granite, but that floats ”
Hey, that gives me a thought – ice cores out the multi-year ice in my fridge. We can put an end to all this AGW hooey once and for all!
I don’t want to appear ignorant here folks, but one guy is talking about ice fishing, another is talking about oil exploration, the other about a tidal wave of ice, and another about log cabins. Like, what the hell is your point anyway?
…but Joe, I did sleep in a Holiday Inn once.
Thanks Tomax–and I once read articles where the writers thoughts were “organized.”
Hey, did you ever hear of the Ukrainian who went ice fishing? He caught more than a hundred pounds! His wife drowned trying to cook it!