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"But those high-altitude observations need occasional reality checks
from scientists down on the surface. It was during one such
on-the-ground research expedition last fall that David Barber, an
Arctic climatologist at the University of Manitoba, got an unwelcome
surprise."
"Barber was aboard the Canadian research icebreaker Amundsen, checking
on ice in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska and Western Canada. The ship
was well inside a region the satellites said should be choked with
thick, multiyear-old ice. "That's pretty much a no-go zone for an
icebreaker of the Amundsen's size," says Barber. But the ship kept
going, at a brisk 13 knots -- its top speed in open water is 13.7 knots
-- and even when it finally reached thick ice, he says, "we could still
penetrate it easily.""
"In short, as Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in
Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were
seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick,
melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber's words, "full
of holes, like Swiss cheese. We haven't seen this sort of thing
before.""
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You
know, there's been agreement in some psychiatric circles
that both Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama suffer from some pathology.
Sociopathy and Narcissism are most frequently mentioned.
Had John Kerry been elected in 2004, he'd have fit right in. Al
Gore, however, who came so close in 2000, is just plain nuts.
Insane. I mean that. Thank you George W. Bush, for the respite.
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