Despite all the little warmist wuzzies hyperventilating about ice extent, this is beginning to look as if it is the year of the icebreaker. We’ve had the Okhotsk Sea, then the Baltic and now St. Petersburg at the eastern end of the sea.
From there we get reports that icebreakers have been called in to free dozens of ships that have become trapped in ice in the Gulf of Finland. At least 97 ships were still waiting for help as of Tuesday, although this is down from 160 ships two days previously.
Global Warming in the Baltic, and now the 600mb has been struck by AGW.
Cjunk, thanks. Interesting to say the least. Probably PM Harper’s fault.
Naw….G”W” Bush for sure.
With the snow pack on the prairies threatening to delay the growing season perhaps we should all be running our trucks a little longer each day to hasten the ‘warming’ spell. Then again the disaster in Japan might go a long way to enhancing ‘globull’ warming now that the “Greenies” want all the nuclear power reactors shut down. Maybe the Mayans got their dates wrong and they were a year or so off. This summer is going to prove “Werry Interesting, Yah!”
Before anybody comments I left the “But Stupid” out on purpose!!!!
Hell, we had the ice breaker come to break up the Grand River ice dam, again, just last week. Had to sail most of the way up to Dunville to do it too.
If not for that we would have had massive flooding along the Grand again this year.
In years past they didn’t bother with the ice breaker, just a few sticks of dynamite under the ice got the job done. Quick, cheap, effective.
Any guesses why a multi-zillion dollar ice breaker is used now instead of a hundred bucks with of explosive?
The alarmists are even trying for a new stretch…
http://www.canada.com/technology/Scientists+link+melting+glaciers+earthquakes/4449816/story.html
sigh, how ’bout the cooling & contraction of the crust causing more quakes due to reduced tension on the fault lines?
And then, as some in Japan are now wailing-:’ This is serious Karma!’
Is weather = climate ?
Not unless it suits a convenient story line…..
These events … just like the familiar crutches of the warmists mean nothing in the real climate picture.
Personally … I want a warmer climate because the alternatives are much worse.
“…and the only prescription is more Cow Bell”
or, to some, more government…
More cowbell is always preferable…in the non-governmental sense.
More cowbell is always preferable to more government.
I keep looking for even one downside to global warming in Canada and damned if I can find it. Gore and Suzuki should be ashamed for getting my hopes up. Quacks.
Did I mention…more cowbell?
The Charlotte to Essex NY ferry is currently solidly frozen in. On St Patrick’s Day. The Grande Isle Ferry, which consists of three constantly running ice breaking ferries, is running through a narrow channel of open water and crushed ice.
But I am not worried, because the IPCC said that these events will become rarer and rarer with the passing of time. I have accepted Al Gore as my savior.
Tuesday was the last day of whitefish and lake trout fishing on Lk. Simcoe – seasons closed.
There is still almost 30 inches of ice on the lake and this is the first year ever I’ve been able to drive my Jeep out to the middle on the last day.
We fished 91 feet of water for most of the day.
Still lots of good fishing for perch and the bite has really started to pickup.
The bugs under the ice have started to get active so spring’s on it’s way, ice or no ice.
Pickups are still out on the ice down here too. Usually by this time of year, the ice is starting to honeycomb and rot.