From WUWT on October 7th: The surprising real story about this year’s Northeast passage transit: The media botched it
One newspaper is making the most of this “first ever event”, according to a story in the UK Register:
The Times has liberally papered London underground carriages with a fascinating new ad campaign. One poster shows a ship navigating some treacherous icy waters, with the accompanying copy reading:
Climate change has allowed the Northeast Passage to be used as a commercial shipping route for the first time.
The Times advertisment
Impressive – if only it were true.
In fact it wasn’t, and now the Times has been forced to recant:
From The Register
An advertising campaign touting the depth and quality of the Times newspaper’s environment coverage has been slapped by an industry watchdog for inaccuracy. The paper has agreed to modify the advertisements, which are based on a false climate change claim.
The Times ads claimed that global warming had caused the North East shipping passage, the icy Arctic route which in summer links Russia’s European ports to the Bering Strait, to be opened for the first time. In fact, the North East Passage opened in 1934, and was opened to overseas traffic after the fall of the Soviet Union. Modern technology, specifically radar, has permitted a safer passage in recent years.
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All members of the SEJ should be taken to the norhern Siberian ports by ship to witness first hand the industrial archaeology. And left there for the winter.
The bbc has a report that in PERU,people are freezing due to the “melting” glaciers.
The editors at the bbc and in the press must troll through all the garbage to find stories from arround the world and then “climatise it”.
They really do think we are complete idiots,or are they taking the Pi$$.
Hu McCulloch (04:36:44) :
In addition to the suggestions mentioned above, on the previous WUWT thread, AnonyMoose provided a link to a comprehensive CRREL pdf report that includes the history of the Northern Sea Route.
Comment:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/07/the-surprising-real-story-about-this-years-northeast-passage-transit/#comment-200182
File:
http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/library/crrelreports/CR96_03.pdf
Hu McCulloch (04:36:44) :
This seems pretty authoritative on the beginning of Soviet use of the Northeast Passage:
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic35-2-317.pdf
We all make mistakes and it is to the Times credit that it will issue a correction.
I have sent the letter below to the Daily Telegraph twice. I did receive a response from an assistant editor who gave me the address of Geoffrey Lean, the environmental correspondent. I still have not received a reply from him or seen a published retraction. If what if i am stating is wrong he should let me know but if he is is in error in stating that Arrhenius confirmed the wildest predictions of the IPCC then a correction is certainly warranted otherwise his views are destined for the annals of jokipedia.
‘I refer to your article in the Daily Telegraph on 5th December 2009 entitled ‘Gloomy Swede who saw the chill wind of change coming’. This contained a very misleading distortion of fact. Arrhenius did originally (1896) calculate that doubling of carbon dioxide levels would lead to an increase in temperature of 5 to 6 degrees C. However, he later reviewed his analysis and revised the prediction to 1.6 degrees C (1901). This makes a significant material difference to the content of the article and merits a published correction’
Goodness me!
It would appear that I was amongst friends when I complained to the ASA about the advert being promulgated by The Times. I did so solely because of what I’d read here on WUWT. I, too, received a letter stating that my complaint had been investigated and had subsequently been informally resolved, with the ‘request’ that I keep this matter ‘confidential’.
I have now begun to write to not only the ASA but also MPs and other responsible bodies about untruths and outright lies made about AGW by various ‘spokespersons’. Is there anyway I can post on WUWT scans of the fatuous replies which I am expecting for the delectation of all?
jjs (12:04:14) :
Brits – do us all a favor and round up all your Greenie Elites and take them to the London Towers and get some of those old torture mechanisms operating again. It would produce some real Green Jobs that would be of great benefit to humanity.
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All those banking-funded towers and torture chambers are what we need to get rid of.
I know where you’re coming from though.
I would have them capturing methane emissions from cows’ arses and getting a ration of food per day proportional to the amount of methane they had captured that day. And it would be a really muddy field. A punishment that fits the crime (for once).
Oh well, I can dream…
jjs (12:04:14) :
It would be quite easy to take all the Warmists to the Tower because virtually all of them are editors or journalists on the national newspapers based just up the road in Wapping. A couple of London double decker buses should be enough to complete the task in about 45 minutes.
I can assure you that the vast majority of the populous in the UK is sitting back and laughing at these journo’s spouting BS day in day out. They have dug themselves such a deep hole promoting AGW over the last ten years they cannot see the light. But one by one they are slowly putting their hands up and sowing the white flag. The Daily Express flipped from alarmist to skeptic last year along with some high profile journalists on the broadsheets.
But please be assured that out in the real world, and out of the chattering suburbs of London, people can see right through the con. As ever the MSM will have to reflect that in their editorial even though they will tell us they saw the light and led us to it.
This time next year only The Guardian will remain as the final defender of the faith. You can tell this from desperate articles such as this that have started to appear over the last few months:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/cold-snap-climate-sceptics
Some facts about the North West Passage.
I am responding to some ignorant claims about the supposed first passage of ships through the passage last year. Someone has obviously missed the boat.
In recent times Roald Amunsden, the Nowegian, traversed it in 1903 (almost 100 years ago) in his little ship, Gjoa. The Gjoa was no icebreaker.
The Canadians put ships through during the 2nd World War.
In 1969 an oil tanker passed through
In about 1817, Edward Parry almost made it in a sailing ship, but was stopped by pack ice which was blown around by the wind and blocked his passage. In 1817 the passage had not been surveyed so Parry never knew how close he had come to being successful.
References:”The Quest for the North West Passage”, Folio Society
Came on, folks! Time to talk sensibly.
The Northwest Passage hasn’t opened to commercial shipping at all. The ships travelling from Europe to East Asia still use the Gibraltar and the Suez Canal routes. Some non-urgent cargo are still taken through the Cape of Good Hope even in order to either save money on the Suez Canal fees or to divert the the cargo elsewhere, should a new buyer make any offer.
Two specially built cargo ships moving through the Northwest Passage with the aid of two Russian nuclear ice-breakers can only be ‘proof of concept’. There is no commercial shipping through the passage even durign the best of summer times.
Where do they think the Soviet Great Northern Fleet was based out of?
“Al Gore’s Holy Ghost (05:30:44) : To pay your salary, as all newspapers are broke, they have to sold its principles and convictions to the bankers who sponsor “global warming” worldwide, so they are not noble institutions.
Up to now it seems funny but when desperate mobs of the unemployed or affected by green policies set your office in fire it will not.”
I work in multimedia so unfortunately I am not involved in any part of what goes in to newspaper articles. If I were a journalist or an editor I would certainly take a stand and encourage everyone at The Times to do so because otherwise we’ll be a laughing stock soon, readership will plunge with the temperatures and taxes, and Mr Murdoch won’t be too proud either. At least his Fox News channel has the balls to question today’s eco-Mathusian socialist movement (which if you read Spiked today is quite heavily steeped in elitist conservatism)
I suppose the families of the dead crews from the merchant ships that the German raider that the soviets escorted through there in 1939 are relieved that it did not really happen. Read http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/ and search for it, they have a good history of its recent use. We should complain again and get some truth out there.
By the way, the Times might want to explain why Russia built and maintain atomic powered ice breakers?? they are for the north west passage, you do not need them to go from England to whatever Archangel is called today.You would think the journalists never went to school!
That’s a good one from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/cold-snap-climate-sceptics
“On Sunday Guardian Environment carried an article telling us that Climate Change is bringing freezing weather to Peru, now Monbiot and Hickman tell us that Climate Change isn’t bringing freezing weather to Britain. So which is it ?”
Double-plus ungood. Paging Winston Smith!
Wikipedia says the so-called Northwest Passage was first navigated by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1903 – 1906 in a 46 ton ship. Does this count?
you mean al gore lies?
John westman (13:54:49) :
…., but was stopped by pack ice which was blown around by the wind and blocked his passage.
That’s gotta smart ; )
sHx (14:12:36) : “Came on, folks! Time to talk sensibly. The Northwest Passage…”
The topic here is the northEAST…got it? northEAST Passage!!! Not the northwest. Not the southwest. Not the southeast. The NORTHEAST, folks.
Opps I blew it. By scan reading I was thinking of the NW Passage instead of the NE Passage.
However, the lack of principles involved are not that much different. Gore did make the comment in his movie about the NW passage being open for the first time. We know that statement, by Gore, is bunk!
Yes, and the North East Passage has indeed been traversed in earlier times. According to the Columbia Encyclopaedia it was first traversed in 1878-79, by a Swede, Nordenskjold. Roald Amunsden also did it 1918-20
John westman (21:20:05) :
Opps I blew it. By scan reading I was thinking of the NW Passage instead of the NE Passage.
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…. but while we’re on the subject of the NW passage, weren’t there 8 or 10, maybe 12 groups of intrepid explorers who were going to navigate the NW passage earlier this year ?? What was the score – any reports ?? I can’t be bothered to search. More kayak boy, Catlin crew misery ??
Mind you, who writes up failed experiments ?? I know I don’t.
Speaking of which though, now the great Catlin ice volume pioneers set the baseline, are they going back up there this year to get the 1st year’s reading with their big long sticks ??
Don’t bother getting out of your warm bed Pen. It’s thinner than we thought ……. ha ha ha
Wow this is pretty harsh. Met Office pwnd:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8443687.stm
So much for the genteel Brits!
Good points, I think I will definitely subscribe! I’ll go and read some more! What do you see the future of this being?