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| U.S. Coast Guard to the Rescue | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 5 2014, 09:26 PM (66 Views) | |
| Berton | Jan 5 2014, 09:26 PM Post #1 |
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U.S. Coast Guard to the Rescue This was probably inevitable: the climateers who tried to document global warming in Antarctica, only to have their vessel hopelessly stuck in a vast ice pack, have been ignominiously airlifted back home, but their ship, along with a Chinese vessel that tried to rescue them, are ice-bound and unable to free themselves. So the Australian and Chinese governments have asked the United States Coast Guard for help: The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star is responding to a Jan. 3rd request from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to assist the Russian-Flagged Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese-Flagged Xue Long that are reportedly ice-bound in the Antarctic. The Russian and Chinese Governments have also requested assistance from the United States. … The Polar Star will cut short its planned stop in Sydney to support the AMSA’s request for assistance. … The Polar Star left its homeport of Seattle in early December on one of its primary missions, Operation Deep Freeze. The ship’s mission is to break a channel through the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to resupply and refuel the U.S. Antarctic Program’s (USAP) McMurdo Station on Ross Island. ![]() The just-refurbished Polar Star is now the “U.S. Coast Guard’s only active heavy polar ice breaker.” It’s a good thing we have at least one! LINK |
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| Deleted User | Jan 5 2014, 09:58 PM Post #2 |
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Well it is good somebody has the means to rescue them. This year has been a year of exceptionally heavy sea ice & colder temps in Antactica. The big problem with trying to track climate change in that region is that there is no long term baseline to work with. Reliable records do not go back even 50 years due ot the inaccesibility of the place, and relatively little is known about its sea ice patterns compared to the Arctic. Antarctica is also far more isolated from land masses than is the case in the Arctic and likely more subject to changes in wind patterns, ocean currents etc. which also make it hard to establish a baseline. Also keep in mind that Antarctica is also the region that CF'S have had the most affect on the Ozone layer, we have little understanding of how that may affect its climate or muddy the waters. (see Link. It is rather ironic that Australia which is in the southern hemisphere has had the warmest year on record whilst Antarctica in the same hemisphere has had one of the coldest. |
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| campingken | Jan 5 2014, 11:15 PM Post #3 |
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Wait...I thought that the scariest words that a person can hear are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!"
Edited by campingken, Jan 6 2014, 03:08 AM.
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| Neutral | Jan 6 2014, 12:16 AM Post #4 |
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The facts that this was a climate change expedition has all but been ignored by the MSM. lol |
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| tomdrobin | Jan 6 2014, 04:13 AM Post #5 |
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Why can't they just scuttle the ships and retrieve them once antartica melts for good.
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