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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Cat;lin Arctic Survey at half way point |
| 2009-04-20 |
| Today was a landmark day for the team as they reached their 50th day on the Arctic Ocean. Any cause for celebration was naturally short-lived, however, since it looks as if the trend of open water may now become a regular feature of the team's daily travel. in the first 50 days of their mission they covered about 35% of the distance to the pole, beginning at about 81N - they have been taking ice core measurements on the way which is of some, though not that much, scientific value; their meta-mission is to propagandize |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #8 As Seafarious said, smart cookies, phil_b. She's very good at recognizing them. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-04-20 23:31 |
| #7 Philip_B is me at WUWT. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-04-20 21:26 |
| #6 I second that emotion, OP. Watt's Up With That is an outstanding resource. He's got some smart cookies in his commentariat as well. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-04-20 17:49 |
| #5 I've been following this bunch of political "scientists" on Watts up with That?, a very useful site for anyone that's watching the home front in the war on human existence. Check it out - daily. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-04-20 17:28 |
| #4 Well, this cloud be a good thing. Maybe this will give us a way around the pirates. |
| Posted by: Kelly 2009-04-20 12:59 |
| #3 ed the scale of the maps to which you linked is obviously incapable of showing the open water ice is rigid, very rigid and wind and below ice current gives differential force to areas of ice, this creates cracks and sometimes the cracks expand and become open water (at least until it refreezes which happens pretty quickly at -25C) |
| Posted by: mhw 2009-04-20 10:53 |
| #2 Where is all this open water they claim to encounter? Sea Ice Extent Daily Sea Ice Extent |
| Posted by: ed 2009-04-20 10:36 |
| #1 There's some question as to whether they're actually out on the ice at all. Faked data feeds, for one thing, and strange video anomalies - no breath visible at -60, etc... |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-04-20 10:28 |
