From the arcticmission reports, where they try to put the best spin on this colossal failure as reported by the BBC:
Pen Hadow sets sail for North Pole as Arctic ice melts
British explorer Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, in an attempt to become the first people ever to sail to the North Pole.
With Arctic ice melting at an unprecedented rate, previously inaccessible waters are opening up, creating the potential for their planned 5,500 km (3,500 mile) journey for the first time in human history.
Um, no. Here is the view of the North pole today, as reported by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC):
From NSIDC:
Cooler conditions, slower melt
A cooler than average first half of the month kept ice loss at a sluggish pace with little change in the ice edge within the eastern Arctic. Retreat was mostly confined to the western Beaufort and northern Chukchi seas. Ice extent remains above that seen in 2012 and 2007.
Here is the photo of the beached sailing vessel at the end-game:
http://www.arcticmission.com/follow-arctic-mission/
by Pen Hadow & Erik de Jong
Arctic Mission’s furthest North was 80 degrees 10 minutes North, 148 degrees 51 minutes West, reached at 22:04:12 (Alaskan Time, GMT-9hours) on 29 August 2017 by yachts, Bagheera and Snow Dragon II.
Arctic Mission moored its yachts to an ice floe on 29 August to conduct one of its 24-hour marine science surveys, while drifting with the sea ice. The strategy for any future northward progress had been to monitor the sea surface currents, sea ice, and weather conditions (both observed from the yachts and through satellites imagery downloaded onto our computers), and decide how to proceed as we approached the end of the 24-hour survey.
A meeting of the four skippers was held led by Erik de Jong, with Pen Hadow present, and it was agreed further northward progress would increase considerably the risks to the expedition, with very limited scientific reward. The decision to head south, back to an area of less concentrated sea ice in the vicinity of 79 degrees 30 minutes North, was made at 18.30 (Alaskan time).
Arctic Mission has demonstrated that commercial fishing and shipping vessels can now access and exploit a new, unexplored and vulnerable ocean region on the planet, the Central Arctic Ocean, due to the melting of its sea-ice cover. Approximately 1 million square kilometres of the Central Arctic Ocean is likely to have been ice-free this summer, having had year-round ice cover throughout human history until the 1980s, and likely has had for many tens of thousands of years.
The commercial activities made possible by this loss of summer sea ice puts at risk the extraordinary wildlife that has evolved to survive in this extreme environment. Polar bears, whales, seals, fishes, seabirds, invertebrates and microbes all contribute to a unique and special ecosystem which is unlike any other on earth.
Arctic Mission has undertaken an extensive oceanographic, wildlife and ecosystem research programme during the voyage, led by Tim Gordon of the University of Exeter (UK). This has included work on acoustic ecology, copepod distributions and physiology, microplastic pollution surveying, inorganic carbon chemistry, seabird range expansion and microbial DNA sequencing. Scientific findings will be released following comprehensive data analysis and formal publication in peer-reviewed journals in 2018/19.
It is believed Arctic Mission has sailed further north from the coastlines surrounding the Arctic Ocean than any vessel in history without icebreaker support.
Its vessels were the first to reach the international waters surrounding the North Pole (aka the Central Arctic Ocean), without icebreaker support and without freezing in.
Its vessels have set the first furthest north within the Central Arctic Ocean without icebreaker support.
Arctic Mission’s northernmost position was 590 nautical miles (678.5 statute miles) from the North Pole.”
I think maybe they wrote the press release and list of “firsts” before setting sail, knowing full well they would not get within 500 miles of the advertised mission goal.
I knew, and anyone who follows ice info knew that the Arctic North of 80 was not only iced in, but temperatures were already dropping prematurely well before they reached the ice edge.
We’ve seen this faith in global warming trump data numerous times in both polar regions and remarkably no one has been killed, although it was more because of expensive intervention by others who put their own selves at risk and not through the foresight and skills of silly people who do these stunts.
I would advise the adventurers who believe the CAGW narrative to sue the universities and perp scientists for costs. Maybe, their lawyers would add error bars and uncertainty statements to the hype.
Well actually he could have gotten at least 150 miles further north if he had tried west of Severnaya Zemlya. However that is in the Russian sector and they might not have felt obliged to save him if he screwed up.
“Arctic Mission has undertaken an extensive oceanographic, wildlife and ecosystem research programme during the voyage, led by Tim Gordon of the University of Exeter (UK). This has included work on acoustic ecology, copepod distributions and physiology, microplastic pollution surveying, inorganic carbon chemistry, seabird range expansion and microbial DNA sequencing.”
Extensive? pppphhhhhhhhhhttttttttttttttttttttttt!
I won an argument not long ago by pointing out that we had little understand of what happened in the Arctic Ocean until we put satellites up and began looking down. Also that the Arctic was an ocean not an ice cap. As for the official ice record that only began in 1979. I have read papers suggesting that there was far less ice in the 1920s-1930s, but the authors explained that the information was all based on expert observation and not synoptic satellite data. I always get back to my same “old” argument, “how do we know something was or wasn’t until we started collecting data. My favorite line from the news media is “the worst in recorded history”, never saying when anyone began recording such history.
Again.
What’s the definition of insanity?
Don’t give up guys. William Edward Parry managed to get a sailing ship to 82 deg 45′ N. Although in fairness, that was in 1827 — you know — before all the “global warming”.
Actually they pulled sleds over the ice from the ice edge. The ship only reached 81 degrees 12 minutes North.
I call this “spin” on an epic failure.
Having lived and worked 7x24x365 in the High Arctic for many years, and having endured those fast talking city slickers on their various celebrity pop in and pop out self indulgences, here are my thoughts on it all:
https://notonmywatch.com/?p=1268
7x24x365? But thanks for a nice summary.
Face it Hadow thought you could mix more light refractive insulation into a bath around a sun-warmed rock,
and as the insulation made less and less light get to the rock and warm it,
instruments would indicate more and more light getting to the rock, warming it.
That’s not science, that’s direct violation of Conservation of Energy and that’s what AGW is. The teaching that the same family of gases stopping 20% of total sunlight from reaching earth,
are making instruments detect and indicate more light warming it. Believers in their teachings despise you pointing this out to the public who wonder about their beliefs.
Reblogged this on The GOLDEN RULE and commented:
This is significant, more-so as a recent scientist claimed that by the end of Sept 2017, the Arctic would be “ice-free”!
The picture above of the sea ice is fake. My guess is that they stopped using the NASA photos because they revealed that the ice was still there.
Et aussi
September 3, 2013
3 days ago, Sebastien and Vincent triggered their distress beacon. They tried everything to keep going, they believed in it until the very last moment, but the very bad meteorological conditions they have now, and will get in the future force them to give up. Returning by themselves is just impossible, and they had to start the distress signal, to their great regret. A Russian Ice Breaker is on its way to bring them back safely.
http://www.sebroubinet.eu/english/la-voie-du-pole-logbook.html
I repeat. Most of the posters here on WUWT were skeptical of the success of the sailing venture the day it set sail. I posted this, which appeared for a day or so, but then was removed from the site (I don’t know why). The ice coverage wasn’t much different from what it is today:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif
How do you plan to sail to the north pole through all that ice?
Yep, that image shows Arctic Sea covered with ice. Exactly how was Clown Hadow going to sail to the North Pole through that? Oh, wait! He changed his “mission statement” to say he would sail “around” the North Pole, and then failed to do that. He did succeed in bilking a pile of money out of a bunch of gullibulls and cows. At least he did not get to steal from tax payers by having to be rescued by Canadian, Russian or American military personnel and vessels. Thank God for small miracles.