Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to researchers Lauren Rickards and James E. M. Watson, scientific researchers are woefully unprepared for the climatic conditions they themselves have predicted.
Science Is Already Being Disrupted by Climate Change, And We’re Woefully Unprepared
CARLY CASSELLA 1 MAR 2020
The climate crisis poses an escalating threat to scientists everywhere and research of all kinds, scientists in Australia are now warning.
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“Academics have analysed the climate change preparedness of almost every sector,” the authors write.
“Ironically, this does not include the research sector, about which very little is known when it comes to climate change, despite those involved having privileged access to climate change information.”
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Still, perhaps the ultimate irony is when climate research is cancelled because of climate change. In 2017, for instance, a multi-year climate study had to be put on hold for a whole year due to extreme ice conditions on the water.
“Researchers are more accustomed to writing about climate change than adapting their work to it,” the authors acknowledge.
“But as climate change impacts on the research sector become more evident, rapid adaptation is needed.”
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Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/all-kinds-of-research-are-increasingly-threatened-by-climate-change-australian-scientists-warn
Click here to see WUWT’s 2017 coverage of the tragic case of Arctic scientists forced to abandon their expedition, when the global warming got too thick for their ice breaker.
Let us hope scientists researching global warming in the Arctic ice obtain a more powerful icebreaker, to avoid further disruption to their research.
Check out the top of the funnel and the top section of the aft mast on the Canadian Coast Guard Ship in the picture at the top of the page. Is the Canadian Coast Guard rolling coal or what?
Somebody should some day try to explain the concept of irony to the authors.
It was clearly a navigation error.
Instead of entering 13N, 60W they entered 73N 60W resulting in the solidified water hazards to navigation. We blame AGW for everything else, why not fat-fingering the satnav input?
The former location would have yielded clear sailing the the elevated temperatures that were sought.
13N, 60W…. between St Vincent / Grenadines and Barbados… I’ll take that.
Nick Stokes, we need you to provide the links to explain this.
We have told you people and told you people: Weather and climate are not the same things. Anomalies encountered in real time do not obviate the overall trend. This is the warmest year on record. This is the warmest March on record. This is the warmest Monday on record. Now shut up. Shut up right now, and go buy an electric car. We’re getting tired of telling you this.
And you people who stole Greta Thunberg’s childhood: Put it back.
I’m off to the beach in Oz while I still can-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/travel/news/half-of-worlds-beaches-could-vanish-by-2100/ar-BB10EsTc
Children are not going to know what Surf Lifesavers look like.
Well they won’t get one from the US; we only have one “heavy” (Polar Star) and one “medium” (Healy) ice breaker left in commission (Polar Sea is now a parts donor for Polar Star). There is supposedly and RFP for at least two new heavy icebreakers — see here (from 2017; not sure this is still active).
Even after a 2012 $62 million refit, the Polar Star had significant difficulties performing mission duties in 2018. See here.
They won’t get one from Russia either as their nuclear icebreakers can’t cross tropical seas as the warmer water won’t cool their reactors sufficiently.
I’m not sure who that leaves with heavy icebreakers. The new Australian ship RSV Nuyina appears to have similar capabilities as the Polar Star and is supposed to enter service this year (2020), but it appears to have been designed primary as a research vessel rather than a working icebreaker:
Details on the Nuyina are here.
My take is if the predicted sea ice reduction does not take place the world short of capable icebreakers, especially for the Antartic. Something to think about when people plan adventure cruises to study the “warming” polar seas.
Yes, that was David Barber from the U of Manitoba who tried to blame global Warming for the thick ice.
Dr. Susan Crockford took him to task for his BS:
https://polarbearscience.com/2017/06/12/heavy-ice-off-east-coast-2017-caused-by-winds-cold-temperatures-and-icebergs/
Part of her post:
Bottom line: I can only conclude that climate change researcher David Barber was grandstanding today when he told the media that global warming is to blame for Newfoundland’s record thick sea ice conditions this year. I suspect that because Barber’s expensive research expedition was scuttled, he simply had to find a way to garner media attention for his project — and the media obliged. Read to the end and decide for yourself.
Radio station CJOB in Winnipeg interviewed him. What a joke that was.
To summarize:
“It was the opposite of what we expected – it must be because of ‘climate change'”
Cue Luke Wilson
Mosaic is a project currently going on in the Arctic. They have problem with thick ice.
But they , and the ice cover, also drift south in a speed not anticipated.
They are two months ahead of schedule.
https://follow.mosaic-expedition.org/
A presentation by a pioneer Polar Navigation professoinal last week included descriptions of the very rapid decline in arctic ice, but also the fact that it is unlikely to open up “The Northwest Passage” within our lifetimes, as it forms very quickly, moves rapidly, and is still dangerous to the many “Adventurers” on missions. I’m a confirmed skeptic but not blind- I’ll take his words at face value (except for hte part that it’s all my fault). He and his firm have been patrolling, researching (and rescuing) in Canada’s arctic for decades, and are alarmed at the number of headline and fame-seekers who head there without icebreaker support and ice-certified craft.
And they are still claiming ice-free summers coming soon…..
Link
A 2017 research vessel fooling around in the Arctic?!
What about the present 2020 Polarstern vessel, which can’t be reached for a crew change because the Russian icebreaker on its way to pick them up is not able to get through the thick ice?!
Every year, a new ship of fools!
Link: https://notrickszone.com/2020/02/26/exchange-of-arctic-research-crew-gets-delayed-as-supply-ice-breaker-blocked-by-unexpected-dense-sea-ice/
The men from the PRU (Prats R Us) are at it again!
Isn’t there a ship that has allowed itself to become trapped in the Arctic sea, so that it can study the environment over a year or more? Any news on how it is doing?
Nothing says, “unprecedented warming” like extreme ice conditions.