Predictions of increased ship traffic in the wake of diminished sea ice in Arctic waters may have been premature, said Malte Humpert, executive director of the Arctic Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank .
“I think 2014 kind of shows that development and Arctic shipping may be further off than we might have thought a few years ago, that the ice is not melting as quickly as previously predicted,” Humpert said. […]
Joel Plouffe, a Montreal-based managing editor of the journal Arctic Yearbook, said access remains limited and development is expensive in the Arctic.
“This is the reality. The boom is not there. And whatever will happen will take years and years and years,” he said.
h/t Orville
And when the GREENPEACE SHIP of FOOLS was tra[[ed in the arctic ice last year that was funny and probibly was a humilating incednet for these eco-freaks
They can’t even get around Lake Superior for much of the year because of ice, and these effing idiots presume to tell us that the arctic will be passable, the level of stupidity dribbling from some of these think tanks is astounding.
I like that the newspaper of a city that was worried that the snow piles from last years road clearing would not be melted in time for this winter, has to tell people that the ice isn’t melting. I’m sure the people who lived without water due to frozen lines will be amazed at this news.
I wish I could agree with you about “Greenpeace ship of fools”. In fact they are very smart and adept at relieving stupid useful idiot people all over the world of their money.
As far as Plouffe is concerned, not too bright to begin with for actually believing the unicorn fa*ts about the Arctic melting.
The ice is not melting as fast as predicted? Shouldn’t that be the ice is not melting at all?
http://www.diavik.ca/ENG/media/1131_media_releases_1846.asp
Kevin conner did dumb movie WATERWORLD he plays some amphibiuos freako named MARINER he swims dolphin style and makes himself look like a total baffoon and has these dumb gills
Knowing how left wing the Free Press has swung over the last few decades I’m surprised to see them allow this in print. I would have expected to see Suzuki defrock himself, or Gore admit to his con game first.
Since the Danes claimed a Canadian island in the Artic things should heat up. It is obvious they cannot be trusted as they iced a pretty decent WJC team. All things considered I think a few Viking immigrants are preferable to the nutbars we are getting.