We Need Another Stinking Icebreaker

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Who’d a thunk it? It’s the ice that’s rising!

Second icebreaker sought for Great Lakes shipping
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GREEN BAY – A brutal winter that slowed the start of the 2014 shipping season on the Great Lakes has one organization asking Congress for another heavy icebreaker.
The Lake Carriers’ Association said it would like to see a second vessel built to keep shipping lanes open on the lakes during harsh winter conditions. The group is requesting another ship similar to the Marinette Marine Corp.-built U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw.
“I want to stress that Lake Carriers’ Association and our members’ customers deeply appreciate the efforts of the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards this past ice season,” James H.I. Weakley, president of the association, said in a news release. “It is clear that the ice conditions that prevailed last winter call for a reassessment of both nations’ icebreaking fleets.”..

The theme continued:

Great Lakes Freeze Cost Economy $705m, 3,800 Jobs [2013-14]

Great Lakes ice makes a leap after January cold snap [note map]
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As of Thursday [Jan. 15], ice covered 34.1 percent of the Great Lakes, up from just 5.6 percent on Jan. 1, and 10.8 percent on Jan. 5 — the first day of a polar plunge that gripped most of the eastern U.S. for days to come.
“Last year, the Great Lakes were 21.2 percent ice-covered on Jan. 14, making this year’s ice cover 13 percent higher to date,”..

23 Replies to “We Need Another Stinking Icebreaker”

  1. Clearly, it’s because of the WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. What else would make the ice pile up?
    Warmes Tyear

  3. I wuz gonna plant banana trees, palm trees, olive trees, and some pineapple trees in the back yard because of glowbull warming, but now I will put those plans on ice!!

  7. Global warming is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Barack Obama.
    The dumb bunny premier of Ontario was on the CTV’s Question Period spouting off about global warming and how Harper is short changing her province and Canadians.
    These idiots never quit.

  11. Math is certainly hard for some weather reporters.
    Last year – 21.2 % coverage,
    This year – 34.1 % coverage.
    It is almost 61% more ice this year and not 13%!!

  12. Tom, that would be 13% more of the lake is covered, which translates into 61% greater coverage.

  13. Its the end of the world as we know it.
    21.2% last year, 34.1% this, for sure(using Cult of Calamitous Climate logic) it will be 47%next winter and 60% the year after, hence true great lakes will be frozen over year around in just under a decade… Canada is doomed.Funny how the Castrophic Climatologists failure to seal the deal during the warm half of the cycle is coming back to bite.

  17. Add some penguins throw in a few dozen skuas and top it off with Greenpeace snow wanks

  18. To put it more clearly, too bad we don’t have the Polar 8. We probably could have sent one to rescue the People’s Temple expedition that was trapped at the south pole last year.

  19. Wait for it … it’s only a matter of time before someone argues that this where the “missing” Arctic ice has gone to.

  20. A Hot Air Tax to be paid by liberal politicians and celberties from yammer about Global Warming and Clmate Change from their fancy 300 arcer estates and paid by the various eco-freaks and eco-freak organizations and might as well also call it a Hypocracy tax as well

  23. Al, knowing most of the water flows north in Ontario I looked this up for accuracy. Only 28 percent of the province drains into the Great Lakes/St Lawrence. The remainder drains into Hudson Bay via the Hudson Bay basin and the Nelson River Basin. That 28 percent is still a heckuva lot of land though!

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