Dear Climate Alarmists...We will never forget.

[Old Rocks]

No, you will not forget. For you stupid asses are going see that the 'alarmists' were actually too conservative. Just as Dr. Hansen was too conservative in his 1981 paper on CO2, predicting that the Northwest Passage would be open sometime toward the end of the century. It opened for the first time in 2007.

Then the scientists said that we might see the Arctic Ocean ice free for a short time as early as mid-century. Now, that will almost certainly happen before 2030.

LIAR!

That passage was open in the 1930's.. You idiot.

Link, asshole.



The Northwest Passage Opens
Long before the Panama and Suez Canals made commercial trading between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans economically feasible, ships made the long and perilous trip around the African and South America continents. Explorers, traders, and world leaders looking for faster and less dangerous shipping routes to far-away areas of the world have long eyed two routes through the ice-choked Arctic Ocean--the fabled Northwest Passage, through the cold Arctic waters north of Canada, and the Northeast Passage, extending along the northern coast of Russia. The first recorded attempt to find and sail the Northwest Passage was in 1497, and ended in failure. The thick ice choking the waterways thwarted all attempts at passage for the next four centuries. Finally, in 1905, Roald Amundsen completed the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage. It took his ship two-and-a-half years to navigate through narrow passages of open water, and his ship spent two cold, dark winters locked in the ice during the feat. More recently, icebreakers and ice-strengthened ships have on occasion battered their way through the ice-blocked route.
................................................................................................................................................

Times are changing. In 2001, the Bering Strait, a key portion of both the Northwest and Northeast Passages, was completely ice free. This was followed in 2005 by record-breaking sea-ice melt in the Arctic, leading to the first ever recorded opening of the Northeast Passage. The fabled Northwest Passage remained closed in 2005. Arctic ice recovered a bit in 2006, but the Northeast Passage opened again in mid-August. But the unprecedented melting during the summer of 2007 saw the Northwest Passage become ice-free and navigable along its entire length without the need for an icebreaker as of August 14, 2007. The sailboat Cloud Nine took advantage of the conditions, and sailed the entire length of the Passage. Remarkably, the Northwest Passage remained ice-free for 36 days, finally re-freezing over a small section on September 19. The Northeast Passage was blocked by a narrow strip of ice all summer. However, this strip of ice thinned to just 30% coverage on September 25 and 26, making the Northeast Passage passable for ordinary ships on those days. The Northeast Passage opened again in August 2008 and in August 2009.

When was the last time the Northwest Passage was open?

We can be sure the Northwest Passage was never open from 1900 on, as we have detailed ice edge records from ships (Walsh and Chapman, 2001). It is very unlikely the Passage was open between 1497 and 1900, since this spanned a cold period in the northern latitudes known as "The Little Ice Age". Ships periodically attempted the Passage and were foiled during this period, and the native Inuit people have no historical tales of the Passage being navigable at any time in the past.

Northern Passages | Weather Underground

The NW passage has been open on an off the whole 19th century..

For centuries explorers sought a navigable passage as a possible trade route. An ice-bound northern route was discovered in 1850 by the Irish explorer Robert McClure; however, it was through a more southerly opening in an area explored by the Scotsman John Rae in 1854 that Norwegian Roald Amundsen made the first complete passage in 1903–1906. Until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout most of the year.

Northwest Passage - Wikipedia

Robert McClure - Wikipedia

Across the Northwest Passage[edit]
Main article: McClure Arctic Expedition
After he returned from the first Franklin search expedition, a new search expedition was launched in 1850, with Richard Collinson commanding the Enterprise and McClure, as his subordinate, given the command of Investigator. The two ships set out from England, sailed south on the Atlantic, navigated through the Strait of Magellan to the Pacific Ocean with the assistance of steam-sloop HMS Gorgon, where they became separated and had no further contact for the rest of their respective journeys.

The Investigator sailed north through the Pacific and entered the Arctic Ocean by way of Bering Strait, and sailing eastward past Point Barrow, Alaska to eventually link up with another British expedition from the north-west. Although the Investigator was abandoned to the pack ice in the spring of 1853, McClure and his crew were rescued by a party from the HMS Resolute (one of the ships under the command of Sir Edward Belcher that were sailing from the East) after a journey over the ice by sledge. Subsequently he completed his journey across the Northwest Passage. Resolute itself did not make it out of the Arctic that year; it was abandoned in ice, but later recovered. The wood from that ship became quite famous later.

Thus, McClure and his crew were the first both to circumnavigate the Americas, and to transit the Northwest Passage - considerable feats at that time. The Enterprise, meanwhile, having arrived at Point Barrow in 1850 a fortnight later than the Investigator, had found its passage blocked by winter ice and had had to turn back and return the following year; it conducted its own Arctic explorations, but credit for the Northwest Passage already belonged to McClure.

Silly ass, McClure finished the journey on foot after losing his ship to the ice. That is not transiting the Northwest Passage by water.

 

[Old Rocks]

John Rae was also an overland explorer. He never transited the Northwest Passage on water.

 

[RollingThunder]

Within ten years, as the Earth inevitable heats up at an accelerating rate and the consequent dramatic climate changes start to really screw up the planet, the professional deniers of AGW (like Joanne Nova)....who have, for money, helped the fossil fuel industry prevent the world from taking effective timely action to deal with the Climate Change Crisis that the world scientific community has been urgently warning us about for decades....will very likely wind up on trial before International Courts for Crimes Against Humanity. Hopefully to be treated like we treated the Nazis at Nuremberg.


Rudolf Hoess on the gallows, immediately before his execution, 1947.