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 ...
To little ice. Too much ice. This global warming causes so many issues.
But, but, but...we were told the polar bears are dying off because all the ice was melting.
Worst ice conditions in 20 years .
Global Warming strikes again!
But...but...Al Gore said all the ice would be gone by now.
Canada Ping!
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.
That cite is dated, so maybe global warming is real in Anchorage, and 93 is the new normal (hottest day of the year).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3315213/posts?page=16#16
Canadian Climate Change Arctic Expedition Derailed Due to Heavy Ice
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.
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.
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.
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