Ice Breakers Needed in Mid-Summer Arctic

The Canadian Broadcasting Company's CBCnews North based in Yellowknife, NWT, reports tough ice conditions in the arctic this summer. If there is global warming Hudson Bay hasn't gotten the memo.

A carefully planned, 115-day scientific expedition on board the floating research vessel, the CCGS Amundsen, has been derailed as the icebreaker was called to help resupply ships navigate heavy ice in Hudson Bay.

Johnny Leclair, assistant commissioner for the Coast Guard, said Tuesday conditions in the area are the worst he's seen in 20 years.

You owe it to yourself to see their photo of an ice breaker escorting a resupply ship through wall-to-wall ice on July 17. I'll bet the grain terminal at Churchill, Manitoba, can't ship much wheat this summer. Hat tip to Watts Up With That for the link.