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Ice packs (and polar bears) thwart Iceland fishing
fishupdate.com ^ | 02/06/2007 | milwguy

Posted on 02/06/2007 9:29:26 AM PST by milwguy

FISH merchants on the Humber may be throwing up their hands in frustration at the worrying decline in fish supplies from Iceland since the beginning of the year. But the underlying cause is something they would never have guessed at - a massive deep freeze around the west coast of the country.

While the rest of the world shudders at the prospect of global warming and all that it threatens to bring in the form of floods and soaring temperatures, Iceland has been bucking the trend - and it is having a dramatic effect on fishing activity around the island.

Thick packs of ice, which have not been seen for almost 40 years, have been moving into the western fjords across some of the best fishing grounds, followed by bitter winds and plummeting temperatures. The ice has proved to be a serious handicap (not to mention a shipping hazard) for fishermen who supply the Humber and other important centres in Western Europe, simply because they have been unable to put to sea. This has led to a marked drop in catches, a fact that has been noticed on the markets of Grimsby and Hull since they re-opened after Christmas.

Communities living around the fjord of Dryafjordur, have noticed that their inlets have been filled with ice in recent weeks - ice drifting in from Greenland and carrying dozens of polar bears on their floes.

When chunks break off the bears become stranded, drifting helplessly on the floes. There have been a number of stories of bears making land around Iceland and having to be shot because they pose a danger to humans and livestock.

The return of pack ice to Iceland goes against all the forecasts of doom of global warming, although some forecasters think it may just be a climatic aberration.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; globalwarming; iceland
More global warming evidence. The envirowackos were saying this pack ice was disappearing, yet 40 years ago the same thing happened. Pack ice broke off around greenland, and driven by winds, ended up clogging the fjords of Iceland. I love the last line in the story.........The return of pack ice to Iceland goes against all the forecasts of doom of global warming, although some forecasters think it may just be a climatic aberration.'

Global warming is an aberration.

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1 posted on 02/06/2007 9:29:29 AM PST by milwguy
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To: milwguy

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2006&month_last=12&sat=4&sst=0&type=anoms&mean_gen=12&year1=1981&year2=2006&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=reg


2 posted on 02/06/2007 9:37:40 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (We are going to win!))
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To: milwguy
I keep picturing Thornton from Sherman's Lagoon.
3 posted on 02/06/2007 10:11:35 AM PST by Deguello
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To: Deguello

Did they take those pictures of the standed polar bears last week, near Iceland?


4 posted on 02/06/2007 11:19:26 AM PST by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: bnelson44

H'mmm....They show Iceland as .5 to 1 degree above the norm. Is that right?


5 posted on 02/06/2007 11:22:20 AM PST by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: milwguy

Send this to Rush?


6 posted on 02/06/2007 11:23:23 AM PST by ItsTheMediaStupid
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