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Ice conditions hold up resupply of Iqaluit, east Hudson Bay ( Canada )
CBC News ^ | Jul 21, 2015

Posted on 07/22/2015 3:34:35 PM PDT by george76

Fuel tanker that reached Iqaluit still unable to unload. Ice conditions this year in the Arctic are making it difficult for ships to deliver the annual resupply of fuel and goods to some Nunavut and Nunavik communities.

Midway through July, only a single oil tanker, aided by a Coast Guard icebreaker, has been able to reach Iqaluit though the sea ice that remains in Frobisher Bay.

"We had quite a bit of difficulty bringing it in," says Johnny Leclair, the Coast Guard's assistant commissioner.

Sealift ships are also behind schedule, with the MV Anna Desgagnes and the MV Qamutik now tentatively scheduled to arrive later this week.

Contrary to predictions made earlier this year, Leclair said, the sea ice in the bay has not been melting.

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a large compacted pan of thick, first-year and multiyear ice has formed in the bay.

It's so thick that icebreakers and commercial ships alike have no choice but to skirt around it, which has led to delays.

The same ice has also been blamed for bringing two polar bears into the community last week — a highly unusual event.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada
KEYWORDS: agw; globalwarming; heavyice; hudsonbay; ice

1 posted on 07/22/2015 3:34:35 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

To little ice. Too much ice. This global warming causes so many issues.


2 posted on 07/22/2015 3:36:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: george76

But, but, but...we were told the polar bears are dying off because all the ice was melting.


3 posted on 07/22/2015 3:38:40 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Squawk 8888; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Worst ice conditions in 20 years .

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ccgs-amundsen-re-routed-to-hudson-bay-to-help-with-heavy-ice-1.3162900?cmp=rss


4 posted on 07/22/2015 3:38:47 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Global Warming strikes again!


5 posted on 07/22/2015 3:41:42 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: george76

But...but...Al Gore said all the ice would be gone by now.


6 posted on 07/22/2015 3:53:34 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: george76; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...

Canada Ping!

7 posted on 07/22/2015 3:55:14 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: george76; All

On the other hand I recently read that temperatures in Alaska have generally been 7o f above normal this year, an that a city (Anchorage?) had a 93o day.


8 posted on 07/22/2015 4:03:31 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
That would be a record ... Anchorage is fairly temperate, as least for a four seasons city. "the hottest reading ever recorded was 86 DEGF (30 DEGC) on June 25, 1953" Anchorage temperature records

That cite is dated, so maybe global warming is real in Anchorage, and 93 is the new normal (hottest day of the year).

9 posted on 07/22/2015 4:11:16 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: george76

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3315213/posts?page=16#16

Canadian Climate Change Arctic Expedition Derailed Due to Heavy Ice


10 posted on 07/22/2015 4:28:55 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: gleeaikin; Cboldt

Eagle maybe?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/05/26/alaska-recorded-its-hottest-temperature-so-early-in-the-season-over-memorial-day-weekend/


11 posted on 07/22/2015 4:34:24 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
Somewhere other than close to a coastline, in any event.

The highest and lowest recorded temperatures in Alaska are both in the Interior. The highest is 100 DEGF (37.8 DEGC) in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915.

12 posted on 07/22/2015 4:43:52 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: george76

So, let the residents go back to what they did before the white man and his supply ships. Kill whales, seals, walrus, polar bears, etc. for food and fuel.


13 posted on 07/22/2015 4:59:29 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: thackney; All

I was not listening to the news with full concentration, and may have heard about record 90s which had been true for Eagle, but in a later report about a record 83 for Anchorage, and mixed together the two as 93. Meanwhile they are having a very severe fire season.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/07/02/amid-months-of-record-warmth-anchorage-officially-ends-its-least-snowy-year/


14 posted on 07/22/2015 11:57:45 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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