Research ships studying 'global warming' finally break free of ice...

[ELVIS]

(CNN) (http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/world/antarctica-ships-free/) -- Two ships broke free Tuesday from the Antarctic ice that had trapped them off the continent's coast.

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Cracks in the ice allowed the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy to escape the ice field where it had been stranded for two weeks, Australia's Maritime Safety Authority said.

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which had gotten stuck in the ice during an attempt to extract the Russian ship, broke free about an hour later, officials said.

The Akademik Shokalskiy had been trapped in unusually deep ice since Christmas Eve with scientists, journalists, tourists and crew members on board. A helicopter ferried the ship's 52 passengers to an Australian icebreaker last week.

"We continue to sail northward, changing courses and speed. The speed is 7 knots," the Russian ship's captain, Igor Kiselev, told the ITAR-TASS official news agency Tuesday.

The captain reported that his ship is now headed to New Zealand, the maritime authority said.

The Xue Long will remain on its original mission in the Antarctic, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said.

A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker had been dispatched to help free the stranded ships over the weekend, but they broke loose before it arrived.

Meanwhile, the international team of researchers who were flown off the stranded Russian ship are on board the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis, which is ferrying them to Australia's Casey Station on Antarctica.


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[ELVIS]

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[Satan]

Does a Devil need to post another ice cream freezer video already?

[DONNIEP]

Does a Devil need to post another ice cream freezer video already?

Will it include titties this time?

[vandeleur]

It's a fact all posts are improved by titties :bigboobs:

[Satan]

Will it include titties this time?

Sure, if I can find one! http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/teufel/d065.gif

[Seshmeister]

:biggrin:


What was your phone like in 1974?

[Satan]

What was your phone like in 1974?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELVIS-PRESLEY-1968-COMEBACK-SPECIAL-ANIMATED-NOVELTY-MUSIC-PHONE-TELEPHONE-NEW-/300826100050

[VetteLS5]

Will it include titties this time?

11475

[Satan]

<div style="margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px; background: url('http://www.bradblog.com/images/GNR_EmbedGraphic.png') top left no-repeat;width:400px;height:120px;"><div style="padding-left:80px;padding-top:5px;font-family:times new roman, times, serif;font-size:12px;"><b>'Green News Report' w/ Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen</b><br /><i>January 7, 2014</i><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.bradblog.com/audio/greennews/player.swf" height="24" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0x5ADA04&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0x2F7B02&rightbghover=0xD4F907&righticon=0xFFFF7C&righticonhover=0x2F7B02&text=0x07400B&slider=0x2F42F7&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0xD4F907&loop=no&autostart=no&soundFile=http://www.bradblog.com/audio/greennews/GNR_010714.mp3" scale="showall" name="index" /><br />Click to listen (or <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/audio/greennews/GNR_010714.mp3">download</a>)<br /><i>More info on today's report <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10445">here...</a></i></div></div>

[ELVIS]

Green news...

Whatever...:rolleyes:

[ELVIS]

(NEW YORK) (http://www.wwgp1050.com/2014/01/07/us-coast-guard-battles-ice-to-keep-shipping-channels-open/) — In the midst of record-breaking bitter cold, the U.S. Coast Guard has been relentlessly fighting against ice buildup in the Great Lakes region in an effort to keep important shipping channels open.

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A massive swath of arctic air, known as a “Polar Vortex,” plunged temperatures well below zero from Chicago to Tulsa. In those temperatures, ice can form up to a foot thick in the rivers that connect the Great Lakes.

The Coast Guard uses ice cutters — heavy ships that have thick, reinforced hulls and polar ice-breaking bows — to clear the major shipping route that separates the U.S. and Canada, so that freight-carrying ships can get through. Without the ice cutters, large freighters can get stuck.

The ice cutters cut tracks throughout the channels, up and down the St. Mary’s River and through the Soo Locks. For those officers who work on the ice cutter boats, the job is far from easy.

“Some days, if you get strong wind, it will blow the track that you spent so much time building, say all day long, and it’ll blow it out of the channel,” said Lt. Commander John Henry on the Coast Guard cutter Bristol Bay. “Those days, those days are difficult.”

The Bristol Bay is one of four ice cutters that have been working around the clock to keep the shipping lanes open for freighters that use the Great Lakes and connecting channels to deliver goods between the Midwest and the East Coast. These massive ships range in length from 730 feet to over 1,000 feet — a ship that is 730 feet long can carry 37,000 tons.

“The biggest cargo for these lakers: iron ore, coal, heating oil and grain,” Henry said. “They pretty much come and service all the Great Lakes, coming through the Soo Locks and then heading either to Lake Erie or Lake Michigan.”

The Coast Guard said it was the earliest the ice had frozen here since the 1930s, and the river connecting Lakes Superior and Huron has been some of the toughest ice they have seen. With cutting through ice, the noise is loud and constant.

“Anytime you hit any type of ice, sound magnifies, especially when you’re going through some pretty thick stuff,” Henry said. “It’s like a constant explosion, especially when you do this all day long from sun up to sun down. But you get used to it. That’s the beauty of ice breaking. … We’re out here because we want to be.”


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[Satan]

Green news...

Whatever...:rolleyes:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxZBhNfdafg

[Nickdfresh]

The Lake ain't frozen here...

[sonrisa salvaje]

Okay i'll bite. Is this thread attempting to present evidence that global warming is not true?

[ELVIS]

Why, do you have evidence that it is true ??

[Satan]

Yeah..... it's called..... what I see with my own Most Unholy eyes.

[sonrisa salvaje]

Why, do you have evidence that it is true ??

I do not. I just enjoy listening to debate about it while trying to figure out what is happening.