Antarctic ice-melt accelerates threefold.

[Legion]

Not really, it is bloody dangerous. Even in August icebergs are a very real danger and if anything happens they are potentially screwed. You'd have to be bloody mental to go on one of those cruises.

[Leonthecat]

Not really, it is bloody dangerous. Even in August icebergs are a very real danger and if anything happens they are potentially screwed. You'd have to be bloody mental to go on one of those cruises.

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https://www.polarcruises.com/arctic/ships
Poor Tom

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Not really, it is bloody dangerous. Even in August icebergs are a very real danger and if anything happens they are potentially screwed.

moon-bat says urgent action is needed. He says that action is to think practically for yourself. Urgent! Think practically! Think hard! That's the solution.

You'd have to be bloody mental to go on one of those cruises.

They stop in a port, herd you off into town to visit junk jewelry stores, then blow a whistle in the afternoon to herd you back onto the ship. That's a vacation? Fuck no!

[Leonthecat]

‘I see opportunities’: Thawing Arctic could make money for Maine






PORTLAND, Maine — For Maine, climate change’s silver lining may well turn out to be that the thawing of the Arctic Ocean boosts the state’s economy, according to public officials who gathered here this week.

“I see opportunities,” said Dana Eidsness, director of Maine North Atlantic Development Office, which is part of the Maine International Trade Center.

Alaska is positioned to be a more dominant player in Arctic issues because much of it lies north of the Arctic Circle. But Maine is the state closest to the Arctic nations of Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia.

With all this in mind, more than 100 people, including many from Maine’s business community, met Monday at University of Southern Maine in Portland to discuss the thawing of the Arctic Ocean. Attorneys with maritime law practices and representatives from University of Maine School of Law, insurance companies, shipping company Eimskip and other private businesses mixed with an array of federal and state officials as well as with academics.

Eidsness’ office helped to organize the forum, which was held in conjunction with a meeting of the Arctic Council at the Westin Harborview hotel in Portland. The council, formed in 1996, consists of eight nations — Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States — plus members of indigenous populations who are working together to promote cooperation, sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic. Other nations have been given observer status at the council’s meetings, which are not open to the public.

The idea of making money off the melting Arctic has drawn protests from critics who say Maine should be trying to prevent rather than profit from climate change. State and business officials say that while it is important to try to put the brakes on global warming, Maine should be involved in trying to make the best of changes that are inevitable — both for the 4 million people who live above the Arctic Circle and those who seek to use the shorter shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that is opening up through the north polar seas.

U.S. Sen. Angus King said at Monday’s forum that it is “imperative” to reduce the global use of fossil fuels in order to slow the rate of climate change and “make it not quite as bad.” But, he added, climate change has begun and people worldwide will have to adapt.

Part of that adaptation, King said, is looking reality in the eye and preparing for the future, both from the environmental and economic standpoints.

“There’s tremendous opportunity for us here,” he said. “This is one of the few benefits that I’ve heard [about] this world historic change. There are many other detriments.”

Russia’s aggressive development of infrastructure along its long northern shoreline and its assertiveness on the Arctic Ocean are also reasons the United States should to pursue an active role in the region, King said.

The thawing of the Arctic was in the news in Maine last summer when the Crystal Serenity cruise ship docked in Bar Harbor just after having become the first large passenger ship ever to cross Canada’s Northwest Passage.

Eidsness said Monday that her office was created in 2013 in the wake of Iceland-based shipping firm Eimskip relocating its North American headquarters from Virginia to Portland. She and other officials in Maine have credited Eimskip’s move with helping to turn the attention of Maine officials toward the Arctic.

Part of her responsibilities, Eidsness added, is to make sure Maine is taken into consideration in international conversations about the Arctic’s future. “It’s important to be in those discussions, both from a climate change perspective but also from a trade and logistics perspective,” she said.

And it’s not just Eimskip that feasibly could get added business as a result of increased shipping activity in the Arctic, according to Eidsness. For example, Harbor Technologies, based in Augusta, is using composite materials developed in Maine to design waterfront facilities that can withstand the pressures of shifting sea ice, she said.

Research entities such as the Climate Change Institute at University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Science in Boothbay also stand to attract funding as climate research continues in the Arctic region, she said. Maine Maritime Academy in Castine has a partnership with University of Alaska at Anchorage to develop an ice navigation curriculum and ice search and rescue protocols for the U.S. Coast Guard.

“We’ve got business relationships [with Alaska] already,” Eidsness said. “It just makes a lot of sense. We have many similarities in terms of the rural nature of our states and the coastal nature of our states.”



https://bangordailynews.com/2016/10/...aines-economy/
Poor Tom.

[Legion]

moon-bat says urgent action is needed.

Even liberals don't believe that. If they did, they'd be living "green" off the grid. Since they obviously aren't, their duplicity is apparent.

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moon-bat says urgent action is needed. He says that action is to think practically for yourself. Urgent! Think practically! Think hard! That's the solution. They stop in a port, herd you off into town to visit junk jewelry stores, then blow a whistle in the afternoon to herd you back onto the ship. That's a vacation? Fuck no!

Not many towns, or indeed people, in the NWP except for Inuit.

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moon-bat says urgent action is needed. He says that action is to think practically for yourself. Urgent! Think practically! Think hard! That's the solution. They stop in a port, herd you off into town to visit junk jewelry stores, then blow a whistle in the afternoon to herd you back onto the ship. That's a vacation? Fuck no!

Moontwat is snowflake driven by cultural Marxism and emotion.

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Not many towns, or indeed people, in the NWP except for Inuit.

We're flying up to Barrow June 22nd , take a tour of the area and fly back the 23rd.

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Unfortunately we will all be dead by the time we would be able to say "Gore was right."
Instead, all our great grandchildren will pay for their science denial and short sighted quick buck propaganda.
You'd think even the most immoral and parochial Exxon executive would know that his riches will not insulate even his direct descendants
from a smokey waterworld. Your grandchildren may own or control the world, but it will be a shithole, and everyone will be wearing
gas masks if we listen to Republicans.

Don't have kids. Problem solved. And in more ways than one.

[Legion]

Not many towns, or indeed people, in the NWP except for Inuit.

Q. What did the Limey tourist say to the Inuit who was eating her dinner?

A:

 

Quit blubbering.

[moon]

There is climate change, it just isn't man-made.

No ? That huge hole in the ozone layer- over Antarctica- was caused by penguins with CFC spray-cans ?

[Legion]

Don't have kids. Problem solved. And in more ways than one.

Didn't The Goracle predict that LA would be uninhabitable by now?

[Leonthecat]

Make like a polar explorer on a 15-day cruise to far-away Arctic islands
By ROSEMARY MCCLURE



Make like a polar explorer on a 15-day cruise to far-away Arctic islands. The 114-passenger Sea Spirit expedition ship will cruise the remote Barents Sea, the northernmost territory of Russia. (Mir Corp.)

If you like getting off the grid and exploring far-away places, a cruise to Franz Josef Land may ring a bell. This archipelago of 191 islands is in the northeastern Barents Sea, the northernmost territory of Russia, and is one of the most remote locales on Earth. It was once a major stop for explorers trying to reach the North Pole.

The 15-day MIR Corp. cruise is being led by Jill Worrall, a tour operator and travel writer.

Participants will see icebergs and glacier-capped peaks as they cruise north on the Sea Spirit expedition ship through the Barents Sea. Wildlife is plentiful in the region, including nesting auks, rare whale species and colonies of walrus.

The round-trip journey begins in Longyearbyen, Norway.

Dates: July 4-18

Price: From $12,695 per person, double occupancy. Includes meals, accommodations, port fees, transfers, sightseeing excursions, expedition parka, insurance and gratuities. International airfare not included.

Info: MIR Corp., (800) 424-7289

[Legion]

No ? That huge hole in the ozone layer- over Antarctica- was caused by penguins with CFC spray-cans ?

Since warmists rejoiced that it was closing and hailed it as "proof" that banning CFCs was working, how do you explain this?

Remember the ozone hole? Last year it closed by November but scientists report it's back and for the second year in a row, it appears to be reaching record size.

Cold weather, giant areas of low and high pressure, high levels of human-made gases and approaching spring in the Antarctic have again provided the right mix of conditions to broaden a yawning gap of the protective layer of ozone in the stratosphere.

Scientists report the hole has cracked open to more than 15 million square miles or about the size of the entire continent of North America. That's only two to three million square miles short of the hole's record size last year, and it's expected to keep on growing.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98280&page=1

Let me guess: "Warming".

[moon]

It suddenly occurs to me that there might be people who don't actually fucking know about the giant fucking hole in the fucking ozone layer;

Man-made chlorines, primarily chloroflourobcarbons (CFCs), contribute to the thinning of the ozone layer and allow larger quantities of harmful ultraviolet rays to reach the earth.

http://www.theozonehole.com/