![]() ![]() Why would Russia’s newest icebreaker not sail the Arctic waters for which it was intended? The inconvenient answer: thick, heavy ice.ĭata from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute showed a thick layer of sea ice covering Russian Arctic waters in early May. This route is easily twice as long as the northern passage to Kamchatka. It then passed through the Suez Canal and crossed the Indian Ocean into the Philippine Sea before finally arriving at its home port in Petropavlovsk in the North Pacific. Petersburg shipyard where it was built, the vessel sailed out into the Atlantic and south to the Mediterranean Sea. ![]() However, instead of traversing Arctic waters from the St. Putin’s newest icebreaker, the Yevpatii Kolovrat (4,020-long-ton) has joined its Pacific fleet off the Kamchatka peninsula, just across the Bering Sea from Alaska. These nuclear-powered icebreakers are among the most powerful in the world, yet this year’s ice –even in May and June, so well after the March maximum– is proving too much even for them. Those aforementioned failed prophesiers of the past would no doubt be shocked (delighted?) to hear that heavy ice in 2023 is forcing even Russia’s new icebreakers to take a southerly route in order to even reach the Arctic. Wonderful movie video … □ #Russia #CNN #nature #love #goodnight /qixap7me3C- Branislav □ and AI Photos March 22, 2021 The Biggest NUCLEAR ICEBREAKER - RUSSIA □□ Check out this mesmerizing time-lapse showing the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal conducting Arctic operations along the Northern Sea Route. ![]() The Guardian, Sept 17, 2012: Final collapse of sea ice within 4 years: “One of the world’s leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.” (Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University). Sierra Club Canada, June 10, 2013: Ice-free by 2014: I have become even more confident about my prediction of total Arctic sea ice destruction in 2013.” Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the NSIDC, Dec 12, 2007: Ice-free by 2012: “The Arctic is screaming.”īBC News, Dec 12, 2007: Arctic ice-free by 2013: “Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 20 … So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative”. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility”. Thick Ice Forces Russian Ships To Take The Long Way RoundĪrctic sea ice is melting so fast it will be GONE by 2008… 2013… 2014… 2016… certainly by the 2030s… definitely by the end of the century - that is, unless throw a chokepoint at human prosperity and drastically reduce our living standards, then all will be great.įailed predictions are the AGW Party’s métier:ĪBC News, April 27, 2008: “You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. ![]()
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