Posted on 09/20/2019 11:23:59 AM PDT by rktman
A team of scientists from 19 countries will set off for the Arctic on Friday, aiming to freeze their ship into the polar ice for a year to research the changing climate.
Aboard the massive icebreaker Polarstern, belonging to Germanys Alfred Wegener polar and marine research institute, researchers hope to glean new understanding of the region.
The 140 million-euro ($155 million) mission will study the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, ecosystem and natural processes looking to build a picture of how climate change is affecting the region and the entire world.
No other region of the world has warmed as quickly as the Arctic in the past decades, mission leader and atmospheric scientist Markus Rex said on the Mosaic (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) website.
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They’ll probably find plenty of Klon Dykes up there, given the present socio-sexual climate of the world.
According to Joe Bastardi, weatherbell.com, the Arctic warming has been during the winter and only by a fraction of a degree each year for the last few years. The winter temps are still many degrees below zero (Fahrenheit). The summer temps have been stable at just above 33 degrees F.
He shows the current Arctic temp chart about 2/3’s the way through last week’s “Saturday Summary” here: https://www.weatherbell.com/
I’m pretty sure they can save their money as the conclusions of the team are already made...
...no matter what they find.
What if it’s forever? OH NOES!!!!!!!!
There was a special on at ‘algores’ carbon credit store and vape shop’. Half off. BOGO vape capsules/cartridges for the trip.
LickO chops and no kibble. :-)
A year without being re-supplied?
That sucks. Being on a ship that goes nowhere. For a year!
Once the booze runs out there will be a mutiny.
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That would make a great Far Side cartoon........
LOL! A repeat of the biosphere experiment in AZ perhaps? “Here’s Johnny!”
The polar bears are rejoicing. They have had researcher snacks is quite a while.
I’ll bet Gary Larson could do a really good cartoon of this.
They are running out of time to scare people before they begin to see that nothing is happening .
How many cases of beer in the hold?
“155 MILLION ?????”
Fresh Arugula isn’t cheap in the Arctic.
I was just thinking of that exact cartoon!
I’m guessing not as many as there were. They had to go through a few of them to come up with this idea.
Yep.
“The Shining” at the N. Pole.
Do you write novels?
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