Monday, February 23, 2009

If alarmist Sen. Patty Murray trusts John Holdren, how can she justify spending millions on another icebreaker?

Coast Guard returning Polar Star icebreaker to service
The Coast Guard Friday awarded a $29 million contract to Seattle's Todd Shipyards for the retrofit of the icebreaker Polar Star built at Seattle's Lockheed Shipbuilding Corp. yard in 1976.

Washington Sen. Patty Murray, who helped obtain an appropriation to reactivate the ship, said the contract will support 250 jobs at the shipyard.

The Polar Star and its sister ship, the Polar Sea, are among three heavy icebreakers stationed in Seattle. The third is the more modern Healy.
U.S. Senator Patty Murray, 2003
Mr. President, the threat of global warming is real.

The Pacific Northwest stands to lose much from climate change – from increasingly severe storms to rising sea levels to negative impacts on forests, coasts, salmon and agriculture.
Complete barking madness from John Holdren, Obama's science advisor
...if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it's going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If the ice is going to disappear due to global warming, why do we need ice breakers?

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't the tilt of the earth have to change in order to not have ice in the winter? They are insane!