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Erofey Schkvarkin News September 4, 2019 4:09 am
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship is on Arctic tour with Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice. All 16 Climate Change warriors were evacuated by helicopter in challenging conditions, all are safe. 7 crew remains on board, waiting for Coast Guard ship assistance.
Something is very wrong with Arctic ice, instead of melting as ordered by UN/IPCC, it captured the ship with Climate Change Warriors.
HT/David G, others keep pouring in, and my Twitter feed.
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Do you think al gore will use this? He is trying to use the Imaq picture as proof of melting sea ice, yet has shown to solid evidence of mass ice melt… Also didn’t another boat carry tourists get stuck, or they had to turn around a month or so ago, with 3 meter thick ice?
Yes, indeed. 2014, Antarctica.
Chris Turney, an Australian university professor led an expedition of academics, reporters, and tourists to Antarctica to bear witness the destruction of the antarctic ice. It was high summer, no less. The Gods will play with mere mortals as they will. The ship, MV Akademik Shokalskiy promptly got stuck in the ice, and the weather turned ugly. (Lesson: when things go bad, they always go from bad to worse) A major international rescue was mounted. The Australian icebreaker, Aurora Australis came close but was driven back by the storm and closing ice. The Chinese icebreaker, Xue Long (Snow Dragon) was able to get close enough to get the passengers off the Akademik Shokalskiy by using it’s helicopler. Xue Long was then in turn trapped in ice. (Lesson: Just when you think it can’t get any worse…) Using their helicopter again, the Xue Long was able to transfer the passengers to the Aurora Australis. Eventually, the two stuck ships were freed, and all made it home safe and sound. The Turney expedition was dubbed “The Ship Of Fools”, that is how it has been known ever since.
Footnote:
The Australian Navy would eventually send the bill to Turney’s university which had partially sponsored the fiasco. No word if they ever actually paid it.
Here is a good story on it:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/10546587/US-icebreaker-en-route-to-help-ships-stuck-in-Antarctic-Ice.html
No that was a brand-new norwegian research vessel which had to turn back with damage after trying to get through the very difficult ice north of Svalbard.
Serves them right riding on a ship powered by fossil fuels. Why do they have to be there anyway?
Like Christmas, It’s becoming an annual event
Like Christmas, It’s becoming an annual event
A couple of thoughts on this:
Firstly, the prefix to the ship’s name, MS, indicates that it is a Motor Ship, which in turn means that it has a Diesel engine………..
Secondly, having looked at the passenger rates, these activists must be very well paid. Out of my pay grade…….
Idiots!
Excuse me while I fall down laughing.
It’s not nice to lie about Mother Nature….She’s a vengeful bltch ! lol
Arctic ice does have a sense of humor, unlike the Planet Saviors.
Ha ha
This gives new meaning to the phrase brain freeze.
Here’s one for the Climate Change Worriers:
Do do you have a problem in life? Yes
Can you do something about it? No
Peace of mind guaranteed 🙂
Don’t worry, be happy!
Do we know who the film crew aboard are? Please be the BBC and Attenborough.
More Maritime news-
“Shipping losses declined by a record level of more than 50% year-on-year from 98 in 2017, driven by a significant fall in hotspots around the world and weather-related losses halving after a quieter year of hurricane and typhoon activity. The 2018 loss year is exceptional compared with the rolling 10-year loss average of 104 (down by 55%).
https://www.marinelink.com/news/shipping-losses-declines-466912
You see it is all Mr Watts fault. They checked the sea ice page and forgot to click on things to update them and thought it was still July ice conditions. /sarc
How many more of these “Ships of Fools” before the insurance companies start charging a rescue premium (aka stupid charge)?
Actually there is less ice in September than in July. The annual minimum is about September 15. It was understanding this that made Nordenskiöld’s first voyage through the Northeast Passage possible, earlier explorers had usually turned back before the best navigation period.
And timing this voyage so late shows just how difficult the ice situation is this year in Svalbard. Normally Hinlopenstraedet, while not quite ice-free, is passable in July (been there, done that).
Hooray!
Somebody on here who actually knows what they’re talking about when it comes to Svalbard sea ice.
Was this a three hour tour?
::thumbs up::
A correction. The ship was beset in Hinlopenstraedet, not “off Longyearbyen” which is on the western side of Svalbard and invariably ice-free in summer.
Usually Hinlopenstraedet is easily passable this time of year, not this year however, and going around Nordaustlandet is also impossible. Foolish to even try it in such a small and weak vessel.
http://www.aari.ru/resources/d0015/arctic/gif.ru/2019/20190903.gif
That sign in X-Files “I Want to Believe”. This ship won’t get the 24/7 coverage by the media that was expected.
The Climate Warriors consistently refuse to let reality influence their plans and their faith.
Last year it was the Northwest Passage that had a bit more ice than average and was impassable. This year conditions there are about average, and the shallow southern route is passable (for a few weeks), but instead there is more ice than usual in the Barents Sea sector. This was already easily foreseeable last spring since the ice north and east of Svalbard was very thick (>3 meters):
http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/sidata/thk_2019_Spring.png
Quite so tty, although in no way should the passengers on MS Malmö be classified as “climate warriors”!
Using a sailboat would render a stronger virtue signal. Not like mine which has nylon, dacron, mylar and kevlar sails from petrol and an epoxy hull.
“7 crew remains on board, waiting for Coast Guard ship assistance.”
Would that ‘Coast Guard assistance’ be employing an Ice-Breaker?
Perhaps we’d have more ice if ‘Environmental Scientists’ would forgo using Ice-Breakers at both poles. If you’re actively destroying ice, don’t lecture me about potentially diminishing ice.
“Arctic ‘Global Warming’ Mission Scuppered By Mysterious Hard White Substance”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/09/ship-of-fools-vi-another-global-warming-expedition-scuppered-by-ice/
How often can one be ambushed by reality and still call himself a realist?
According to NSDIC, Arctic sea ice extent grew yesterday from 4.293 million sq km to 4.297. If gains continue, this would be among one of the earliest summer lows in the dedicated satellite record, since 1979, if not the earliest. Septmeber 10, 2016 was a recent early minimum. Sea ice built for two consecutive days in late August, however, so it’s obviously too soon to declare a bottom for this season.
Whether September 7 proves this summer’s low or not, the slowdown in melt suggests that 2019 will pip out 2016 and 2007 for fourth lowest year, after the 2012 record minimum. Fifth lowest was 2011 and sixth 2015. Arctic cyclones struck in the three lowest years, twice in 2016. There was a cyclone in late August this year, too, but it didn’t seem to affect sea ice extent.
Griff and NOAA were yet again wrong, as usual, to expect 2019 closely to rival 2012’s 3.387 M sq km. Unless a late season cyclone should hit the Arctic. the annual fluctuations are just weather. The trend has been flat since 2007. Arctic sea ice is in its natural cyclical bottoming process.
And before Griff cuts in that it is the volume, not the area of the ice that is important, and declining. Here is the only data on sea-ice volume that is actually measured not modelled, from Cryosat:
http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/sidata/vol_ts_0.large.png
See any decline?
Thanks for that.
Multiyear ice is doing quite well, thank you!
It seems to me a lot of people tend to think of sea ice as static. Of course it isn’t. Places that were open water last year are closed up by heavy ice this year and of course the opposite is true. Extent, usually what is probably the least climate indicative metric, is what Griff loves to harp on all the time.
Nor does the arbitrary cutoff of 15% ice cover in satellite observations necessarily mean waters open to navigation, as per the present situation in the southern route of the NW Passage.
Up again yesterday to 4.318 M sq km.
NOAA should have a lot of explaining to do about its wishful-thinking prediction three weeks ago of 3.44 M, second only to the record minimum in 2012 of 3.39 M.
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/08/dead-heat/
Even if Arctic sea ice should start melting again this month, it won’t get anywhere near that low.
In 1980 the low occurred on September 5 or 6, which was a leap year. So September 7 would not be unprecedented in the dedicated satellite record.
Arctic sea ice extent on September 10:
Another build, however small, yesterday, to 4.324 M sq km.
Like watching ice freeze!
Higher than on same date in 2012, 2007 and 2016. Griff must be crestfallen. Disappointment upon disappointment that Mother Gaia doesn’t cooperate with his confident predictions based upon his deep religious faith in the great god CACA.
OTOH, Antarctic sea ice dipped slightly yesterday, but if the 7th should remain the high, it’s in the normal range.
I’m still convinced that these eco-tourists go on these trips to show that the ice is not there.
Expecting to “dine out” on the horrors of ice-free summers all winter.
Not necessarily. Hinlopenstraedet is quite good for Polar Bears and there is a large Walrus haulout at Torellneset (on land, not ice, please note). There is also a large breeding colony of Brünnich’s Guillemot on Alkefjellet, but they are gone by now. There is also a good chance to see Sabine’s Gull and some slight chance for Ross’s Gull.