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2018-10-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Canada: sea ice prevents crucial supply deliveries to isolated communities
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Posted by DarthVader 2018-10-05 10:32|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 If this becomes a regular occurrence, the communities will be abandoned, just like Greenland was by the Vikings in the fifteenth century.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-05 12:13||   2018-10-05 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Caused by global worming?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-10-05 12:42||   2018-10-05 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Caused by global worming?
Yah, sure, you betcha.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-10-05 14:01||   2018-10-05 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 You might also look up the following article, TW.
Why did Greenland’s Viking colonies disappear? It may have been because the trade in walrus ivory collapsed
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-10-05 14:17||   2018-10-05 14:17|| Front Page Top

#5 A useful article, g(r)omgoru. I suspect it was probably and rather than or.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-05 15:09||   2018-10-05 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 😊
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-10-05 15:18||   2018-10-05 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Al-Aska Paul needs to dogsled in supplies
Posted by Frank G 2018-10-05 15:42||   2018-10-05 15:42|| Front Page Top

#8 I went through those three villages in July 1990 in my plane when I went from my home in NW Alaska to Resolute. Paulatuk is 60 mi east of the SMOKING HILLS near Cape Bathurst on the Arctic coast. The Smoking Hills are composed of sulfur rich lignite, which autoignites and leaves a pall of smoke covering the hills. Craziest thing to fly over. Nearby water bodies are pH 2, very acidic. Better call Environment Canada.

Kugluktuk used to be known as Coppermine on the mouth of the Coppermine River. It is east of Paulatuk.

Cambridge Bay is at the western edge of Coronation Gulf.

You have not started throwing down money until you start flying 50 to 60 Hercs. That's oil patch quantities. Global Warming me arse.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-10-05 17:50||   2018-10-05 17:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry, Commodore Frank, no more dogsledding freight for me.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-10-05 17:51||   2018-10-05 17:51|| Front Page Top

#10 I was being rhetorical :-)
Posted by Frank G 2018-10-05 20:28||   2018-10-05 20:28|| Front Page Top

#11 I always wonder if air cushioned vehicles would work. The navy has some large ones
Posted by Silentbrick 2018-10-05 20:58||   2018-10-05 20:58|| Front Page Top

#12 range is an issue - those are shore-to-beach delivery for the most part
Posted by Frank G 2018-10-05 21:08||   2018-10-05 21:08|| Front Page Top

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