More than two dozen cargo vessels are stuck in Russia’s Arctic ice, waiting for ice-breakers to come to their rescue, after an inaccurate forecast from the country’s Met Office. The Telegraph has more.
Maritime traffic in the Northern Sea Route has been on the rise in recent years as rapidly warming winters reduce ice cover, and Russia invests in its Arctic ports in preparation for a further boom.
But this year several segments of the Northern Sea Route froze up about a fortnight earlier than usual, catching many ships unawares.
Alexei Likhachyov – director general of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom, which manages the country’s nuclear-power fleet of ice-breakers – said on Monday that the ships included vessels sailing under the flags of Hong Kong and Marshall Islands.
He blamed the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice, in comments to local media.
Worth reading in full.
Worth remembering that Antarctica recently recorded its coldest six months on record.
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what’s up with the subscriptions on all the news websites? They seriously think that simple people are going to pay money to read some propaganda? this article comes more as an advertisement of subscription for that website.
Just have a look if you’re capable of free thought. This really should be required reading for anyone still within the education establishment.
https://beautyandthebeastlytruth.com/
From the link you posted:
#1 Decarbonising the economy will cost us an arm and a leg – and achieve nothing.
Wind and solar are cheaper than fossil fuels and the differential will obviously increase as renewables scale and fossil fuels becomes scarce.
Even if you don’t think anthropogenic global warming is real, surely most people would agree that quieter towns and cities, cleaner air and energy security are achievements worth pursuing.
#2 Planet Earth has her own natural cycles. We didn’t heat her up – and it’s not our job to cool her down.
Agreed, planet Earth has its own cycles. So what?
#3 Planet Earth needs more carbon dioxide not less. Then plants would grow faster, the deserts shrink, and the earth will be greener.
The only way to test this hypothesis is to continue with a potentially irreversible grand experiment on our only planet. Shouldn’t we get permission from Earth’s 7.4 billion inhabitants first?
It cuts both ways : anyone hanging onto one-off weather data like this to prove a point is pretty stupid.
Citing short term local weather conditions as an argument against long term global warming is silly. Weather is chaotic.
The media put far too much emphasis on “predictions” from models, which are nothing of the sort, but are merely a best guess. We’ve known for more than a century that increasing greenhouse gasses traps more of the sun’s energy and thus has a warming effect on the planet as a whole. How this warming will manifest itself is impossible to predict with any accuracy.
Personally, I think we are unwise to conduct a grand experiment on the only habitable planet we have available.
For those who don’t believe in man-made climate change: given that renewables are the cheapest source of energy and give us independence from the likes of Mr Putin, what’s not to like about rapidly transitioning to wind and solar now, rather than waiting until fossil fuels are even more expensive?
“For those who don’t believe in man-made climate change:”
This is the calculation, using internationally recognised data, nothing fancy, no hidden agenda, just something we can all do by taking our socks and shoes off.
Assuming increasing atmospheric CO2 is causing the planet to warm:
Atmospheric CO2 levels in 1850 (beginning of the Industrial Revolution): ~280ppm (parts per million atmospheric content) (Vostock Ice Core).
Atmospheric CO2 level in 2021: ~410ppm. (Manua Loa)
410ppm minus 280ppm = 130ppm ÷ 171 years (2021 minus 1850) = 0.76ppm of which man is responsible for ~3% = ~0.02ppm.
That’s every human on the planet and every industrial process adding ~0.02ppm CO2 to the atmosphere per year on average. At that rate mankind’s CO2 contribution would take ~25,000 years to double which, the IPCC states, would cause around 2°C of temperature rise. That’s ~0.0001°C increase per year for ~25,000 years.
One hundred (100) generations from now (assuming ~25 years per generation) would experience warming of ~0.25°C more than we have today. ‘The children’ are not threatened!
Furthermore, the Manua Loa CO2 observatory (and others) can identify and illustrate Natures small seasonal variations in atmospheric CO2 but cannot distinguish between natural and manmade atmospheric CO2.
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“410ppm minus 280ppm = 130ppm ÷ 171 years (2021 minus 1850) = 0.76ppm of which man is responsible for ~3% = ~0.02ppm.”
Man is responsible for 3% of the CO2 going into the atmosphere, but this 3% accounts for 100% of the rise in atmospheric CO2.
If I am wrong, what has caused the increase in CO2 levels since the industrial revolution?
Graph source: https://www.co2levels.org
Wind and solar are cheaper, and the differential will increase as renewables scale and fossil fuel becomes more expensive. This report was published in August 2020, well before the recent massive spike in gas prices.
I am no fan of the regime in China, and I would be interested in evidence of the “forced labour” used to make solar panels, but which, presumably, is not used to make any of the other Chinese products that you and I buy and use on a daily basis.
Source:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911817/electricity-generation-cost-report-2020.pdf
It’s a very complicated subject. As others have said, trends in the moving average are more likely to be helpful than just one ‘record’ event. As with medicine/health, look for the data and try to ignore the dogma.
If it’s anything like medical funding, grants have become shorter-term, researchers have less and less job security, trials are under-resourced, industry has more and more influence and the UK ended academic tenure in 1988. Published papers are of declining quality and the number retracted or withdrawn because of serious flaws is rising.
Not a great way for a wealthy, developed country to operate …
The variation year to year is greater than the effect of any long term
change. That is called noise. You can reduce the noise by averaging
over several years to get ‘mean’ data and then looking at trends over
maybe 1000 years to see if anything unusual seems to be happening.
Makes no sense to base arguments on the noise. What are you going to conclude in the likely event that the freeze is 2 weeks later again next year?
The “variation year to year” has been progressing since at least 2016.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
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“Painstakingly deconstructing the nation-state since 1945!”
With the planet clearly cooling, and the evidence of that becoming clearer even to the nacho-grazing plebs, one wonders if the pivot to infinite pandemics is merely the regime’s plan to continue control.
Maybe Putin can ride in on horseback, bare chested and rescue them.
Shouldn’t the prices of coastal properties in North Norfolk be falling?
I thought the land was falling.
There is a common misunderstanding that the Arctic ice extent tells you where the edge of the solid ice is.
In reality it measures coverage that is above 15% – just to clarify 15% ice and 85% water.
This means that the extent is related to prevailing winds, which can pack and unpack the ice quite rapidly and the annual minima are more a measure of wind directions and strength than “global temperatures”.
Interesting. Thanks.
Global warming and mass vaccination. The marriage made in hell.
And, one might ask, where is the nation-state when you need it?
Obviously, as any expert would understand, the early freezing of the Arctic and the coldest 6 months on record is BECAUSE of global warming. How could it be anything else?
Every expert knows the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of everywhere else, just like everywhere else.
there is no need , since 1995 to rely on forecasts of arctic ice, in 1995, we launched this to measure it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radarsat-1
Wikipedia, LOL the fuckwits go to, for CIA facts.
Even one of its founders recently condemned it as left wing nonsense.
I do hate to be a contrarian (well no I don’t, but) as a naturalist I take great pleasure in observing the change in seasons & the new wildlife that makes it appearance in those transitional periods. Every year we see a flock of Fieldfare & Redwings (Thrushes) congregate on their passage south to strip our Rowan, Elder & Holly trees of berries, Usually they arrive late October/early November! This year they are at least 3 weeks late, I only started seeing them today, conversely in The summer we had significantly fewer Swallows that arrived later. I don’t know what that means. I could speculate, it is certainly linked to warmer weather further north & quite likely cooler weather further south. Not necessarily global warming, just global ocean cycles etc. Just saying!
A lot of fruit has been a bit late this year, at least in ‘central southern England’ (Met office term). We had a rather dull Summer, with sunshine hours well under the long term average, with August being the worst. Thus the energy input to the trees has been down, and it’s all been a bit slow.
Up north (highlands) was a much brighter, warmer summer than usual trees fruited well, to be honest Rowan always seems too. Rain count was well down though, which of course trees don’t much appreciate.
More stuff you won’t see on the BBC.
I know with scientific certainty that Global Cooling is guaranteed to happen. How do I know this? Because all the experts said that Global Warming was guaranteed to happen.
stick to raving Mr Gove
Get with the narrative: this freezing is just small respite before the next wave. The only way to halt global warming is to get vaccinated, wear a mask and clap for carers.
And then fire them
And surrender your freedom, wealth and bodily autonomy
Isn’t there a tax we need to pay to stop global warming? Paying tax solves all other problems, so why not climate change?
They’ve been trying to introduce a carbon tax for a decade or more. Of course it won’t solve anything, but it will make some oligarchs even richer.
Indeed. Sorted rNHS didn’t it?
Bill Gates is working on a Global Warming Vaccination.
But the BBC said the Arctic would be ice free (in 2007) by 2013.
How did it grow back so fast in 8 years with all the global warming?
I used to be open to climate change and thought we should do something just in case. Having had my eyes opened by “leaders” behaviour over COVID and seen the BS at COP26 I see it as just another scam to tax the poor and take more rights away.
I still think we should do something about general pollution especially plastics. We could easily make almost immediate substantial cuts in plastic use and we don’t. I assume because that doesn’t make enough money or scare people.
I recommend following Tony Heller’s Youtube channel and his website – Real Climate Science for good referenced articles. He has kept old weather station records from the early 1900’s.
Ditto.
I think we should stop blaming end users for plastic (and other materials) waste and place the blame where it really starts with the product producers. Why so much needless packaging on everything? Why don’t sales outlets have huge bins so buyers can dump the unnecessary packaging components instead of taking them home and then being held responsible for ‘their’ waste? Example frozen foods such as onion bargees don’t need an outer cardboard box to supplement the plastic wrapper inside, a label on the wrapper would be quite sufficient but of course the marketeers want a pretty picture plus loads of unnecessary details that no one actually bothers to read.
They also don’t want their products crushed during transport and storage. Why do you think crisp bags are full of air?
The most threatening pollution is found in Whitehall and is a real threat to all of us.
Welcome to the dark side.
You do realise though, supermarket plastic bags were invented to address the problem of deforestation to provide paper grocery bags.
Nor does the great Pacific Garbage Patch exist, no matter how hard the greens try to convince you. And microplastics pass through the gut of fish, they don’t get absorbed. They fall to the sea bed where they are consumed by microbes and broken down.
I’m just tending to laugh at this and covid stuff a lot recently – I don’t know if it’s because I sense the narrative is all going to pot or it’s because I’m finally losing it, but I don’t get annoyed the way I used to.
I suppose time will tell.
Same here. I suspect it’s a bit of each.
I just try to ignore it
Why come to this site then?
To annoy the fanatics.
Wasn’t this why they changed it from Global Warming to Climate Change?
It was global cooling in the late 1970’s. I remember old videos made with the well known scientist Leonard Nimoy (Spock) made documentaries about it.
Grand Maunder Minimum incoming now, so only 50 years late. Climate scientists and geologists were corrupted before the biologists by the technocratic globalist elite.
So when was the climate “normal” so we have a datum point to measure from.
What is the correct global temperature?
I don’t call it global warming or global cooling, I call it “Global Staying the Same.”
hahahahahahahahahahaha! the desperate wish for absolutes laid bare! you should try religion – not even septicism is for you
OK, give us all the optimum range of atmospheric CO2.
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
I bet this doesn’t get mentioned on the BBC. Or the rest of the MSM…
Not many takers here, I guess!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSypu3hOzNo
Starts about Kyle Rittenhouse, but is more about MSM manipulation and MSM Division production for Soros profits.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24jqyYzMGO4
Oh and some good news if you are a fellow lover of bad news for BBC/ Sky Narrative 24
This happens about every year. I love it when it happens to research vessels going to the arctic or antarctic to research global warming.
Wrong sort of ice
🤡🤡🤡
Even though this is a story about ice, it warmed the cockles of my heart.
Can anybody give a climate change prediction that has proven correct?
Kräht der Hahn auf dem Mist, dann ändert sich’s Wetter oder’s bleibt wie’s ist. ?
This is a mock so-called farmer’s rule (Bauernregel) for predicting the weather. In English, it would be When the cock crows on the dunghill, the weather will either change or it won’t.
If you can see the hills it’s going to rain, but if you can’t see them it’s likely raining already, or it’s night and probably too dark. It sometimes works.
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Has pantsdown been asked to?