Is It Just Me, Or Shouldn't There Be A Little More, Uh, Ice In The Arctic Ocean In Early October?

[hatrack]

[kestrel91316]

1. You need to turn on the teevee and have a bottle of Ripple, dude.

[hatrack]

2. And maybe I should have that bottle . . . on ice?

:evilgrin:

[kestrel91316]

4. No, dearie, that ice needs to go into the ocean to fight global warming.

[zeemike]

3. Don't worry about that ice up there

We don't need it. We have refrigerators now that have ice makers built right in to them.

:sarcasm:

[GliderGuider]

5. Last year's ice is, like, so yesterday...

[jberryhill]

6. "I'll have an Artic Ocean, neat please" /nt

[Viking12]

7. It's all good. The Northwest Passage is open for business.

Assisted by climate changes that have made the Northwest Passage ice-free into September, Swanson and his six-person crew completed the 6,600-mile journey through the Passage in 73 days, setting several firsts along the way.

Cloud Nine was the first American sailboat in history to transit the Passage from East to West, according to David Thoreson, an Iowa photographer who was on the boat's crew. It's the route taken by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who needed three years to complete his voyage, in the early 1900s.

Also, Cloud Nine is thought to be the first American sailboat to sail the passage in a single year; others have gotten stranded in ice and completed the journey the following summer.



http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1463365.html