|
The following items don't rely on charts or graphs or predictions based on models. They are real observations by real people, which in my mind are a better barometer of what is actually happening.
In the spring of 2008 it was so cold in the upper Midwest (where I live) that many of the songbirds that returned expecting normal spring weather died due to the lack of food - caused by the COLD temperatures. Until mid-April or so it was rarely out of the 40's here.
In 2013, an Antarctic research vessel named Akademik Shokalskiy became trapped in the ice. The problem was so severe that they actually had to rescue the 52 crew members.
In 2015 a Canadian ice breaking ship, the CCGS Amundsen, was forced to reroute and help a number of supply ships that had become trapped by ice.
In the summer of 2016 a group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists started a journey around the North Pole (from Bristol, Alaska, to Norway, then to Russia through the North East passage, back to Alaska through the North West passage, to Greenland and then ultimately back to Bristol) with the goal of showing the lack of ice there. They became stuck in Murmansk, Russia, because there is too much ice blocking the North East passage - ice the team said didn’t exist during summer months. The icy blockade came just over a month after an Oxford climate scientist, Peter Wadhams, said the Arctic would be 'completely ice-free' by September of that year.
During the winter of 2019-2020, there were a number of reports that Arctic sea ice had unexpectedly reached normal levels this winter. This is a bit of good news for most of us, but hardly good news for global warming alarmists - and the media have avoided even mentioning it.
German high-tech research vessel 'Polarstern', of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), with 300 crew members, began an expedition into the mid-Arctic in September of 2019. On Feb 26 of 2020 NDR German public broadcasting reported that it appears the Polarstern’s crew will have to sit tight for a while longer. Russian supply ice breaker 'Captain Dranitsyn' was headed over to carry out a scheduled crew exchange but ended up consuming too much fuel trying to break through the sea ice - now the supply icebreaker no longer has enough fuel for the return trip because the ice is so thick that more fuel was burned than expected trying to break through it.
Back to Global Warming Overview
Back to Other Topics
|
