Couple this with the facts that other research vessels were trapped in Arctic ice in 2017 and earlier you would think folks might learn from previous happenings, but apparently not.
The research and expedition ship Mikhail Somov stuck in the ice in the Vilkitsky Strait Where are the 'rapidly warming winters' this time around? It seems global warming is behaving badly, in parts of the Arctic at least.
Something is very wrong with the Arctic. Instead of melting as predicted by the IPCC it continues to capture ships.
The latest includes more than two dozen cargo vessels that got stuck in Russia's Arctic ice and had to wait for ice-breakers to come to their rescue, after an inaccurate forecast for the country's Met Office. Shipping firms blamed the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice. 1
“It's deja vu all over again”
As Yogi Berra would say, “It's deja vu all over again.” This has happened a number of times before.
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice in September 2019 off Longyearben, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship was on an Arctic tour with a climate change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with climate change and melting Arctic ice. All 16 climate change warriors were evacuated by helicopter in challenging conditions. Seven crew remained on board, waiting for Coast Guard assistance. 2
During July 2019, Norway's most advanced polar research vessel ended its summer expedition to the Arctic early after thick ice prevented the Kronprins Haakon from reaching the North Pole. 3
Couple this with the facts that other research vessels were trapped in Arctic ice in 2017 and earlier you would think folks might learn from previous happenings, but apparently not.
References
“Two dozen cargo ships stuck in Arctic as ice freezes early,” principia- scientific.com, November 27, 2021
Erofey Schkvarkin, “Ship with climate change warriors caught in ice, warriors evacuated,” maritime bulletin.net, September 4, 2019
Jack Dini, “Once again Arctic stops an icebreaker,” Canada Free Press, July 31, 2019
Jack Dini is author of Challenging Environmental Mythology. He has also written for American Council on Science and Health, Environment & Climate News, and Hawaii Reporter.
