Heavy Ice Forces New Russian Icebreaker on Long Southerly Voyage
Legion | May 24, 2023 | Stephen J. ThorneLatest Arctic challenges illustrate the difficulties in predicting climate change effects.
Just like the continued existence of the world “illustrates the difficulties in predicting the end of the world.”
Russia’s newest icebreaker—an 82-metre, 4,000-ton naval vessel—has joined its Pacific fleet off the Kamchatka peninsula, just across the Bering Sea from Alaska. But the route the Yevpatii Kolovrat navigated in mid-May has raised some eyebrows.
Instead of traversing Arctic waters from the St. Petersburg shipyard where it was built, the ship sailed out into the Atlantic and south to the Mediterranean Sea. It then passed through the Suez Canal and crossed the Indian Ocean into the Philippine Sea before it arrived at its home port in Petropavlovsk in the North Pacific. The route is easily twice as long as the northern passage to Kamchatka.
Why would Russia’s newest icebreaker not sail the Arctic waters for which it was intended? The answer: heavy ice.
Data from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute showed a thick layer of sea ice covering Russian Arctic waters in early May. In the Laptev and East Siberian seas, two belts of multi-year ice were considered impassable, even by the vaunted Russian ship named for a 13th century war hero.
And, to save the Global Warming scam, an invented statistic, followed by a moving of goalposts:
Canada’s federal auditor general reported in November 2022 that average summer sea-ice coverage in the Canadian Arctic had dropped by about 40 per cent in the last 50 years due to climate change, but lately it has been longstanding sea ice, not the seasonal variety that comes and goes, that has impeded Arctic traffic.
Bud Light Ice can derail the LGBTQ community due to global smarming
Putin:
“We may have to nuke the North Pole again like we did in 1961 with Tsar Bomba. Nobody messes with Mother Russia.”
That’s so typical. Elder sea ice still living in the ice age…
Straight Line of the Day: If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then
you’re bound to make a killing selling Parkas in Death Valley.
… heavy road ice can detour commuters due to extreme weather events, caused by, you guessed it, global warming!!!
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
James Cameron should probably start drafting the script to Titanic 2: The climate strikes back.
Plan T from outer space
Aliens rise the Titanic in an effort to communicate with humans.
… Southern Californians can use their “natural” sweat-based cooling system to keep cool in the summer when the rolling blackouts hit, due to, you guessed it, the global warming-caused energy insanity found in California lawmakers…
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
Light ice failing to detour icebreakers due to global warming is scheduled to be next year’s argument for social control.
You’ve caught on. Expect that knock at your door.
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
Greta will demand science produces a solar and wind powered icebreaker that can make everyone cherry slushies for free.
Government will spend 14 trillion dollars and 5 years that concludes with the purchase a rowboat from a homeless guy in a really neat rainbow colored suit.
Science will produce an amazing vessel that can climb out of the water and walk the sea ice, but the project will be scrapped because one of the team wore a problematic T-shirt.
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
we must abandon Reykjavík as the venue for our next big meeting to emphasize the impending disaster.
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
Putin surely must realize the mistake of not launching the Ice breaker in the Caspian sea.
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
…Heavy Ice can top the charts with his new album Straight Outta Nome.
This is pure bacon!
… ingesting heavy water can turn an ordinary human into the Flash…
We must pay Dr. Evil one million dollars for use of his sharks with fricken laser beams.
Heavy icecream can detour Biden around sandbags and stairs.
Heavy strippers can detour Walrus around strip clubs. Nah, who am I kidding?
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
… then isn’t this an attack on ships in general?
And if we are attacking ships, I put it to you, Greg, isn’t this attack on the entire transportation system?
Well, you can do what you want to us, but I am not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the free movement of people and commodities! Gentlemen!
Buttigiege: “Did someone say “transportation”? I’m an expert on the matter.”
If Heavy Ice Can Detour Icebreakers Due to Global Warming, Then…
global warming laughs at your puny mortal attempts to stop it.