Catlin alarmist expedition follies

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arctic team: 'London, we have a problem'

After enduring ferocious weather, it has emerged that British explorers studying the Arctic are struggling with a series of technical problems.

A portable radar device, known as Sprite, designed to make millions of measurements of the ice thickness, has been dogged by breakdowns and uncertainties.

Another instrument, SeaCat, meant to measure the temperature and salinity of the water beneath the ice-cap, has malfunctioned as well.

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UPDATES WE HAVE UPDATES: 8 updates to this story have been posted - see below the “read the rest of this entry” line. It appears most if not all of the technology in the expedition has failed early on and the Catlin website never made any mention of this fact until a BBC article appeared today.

American Thinker Blog: The Gore Effect: Catlin Arctic Expedition Hampered by Cold

The Catlin Expedition, which is trekking to the North Pole to highlight effects of global warming on Arctic sea ice, has had equipment malfunctions due to extremely cold weather.
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What is not surprising is that the Catlin group withheld information about the equipment malfunction story. The Global Warming lobby does not like to highlight information that does not fit the story line.

taxmanblog: Branch Gorevidians get frozen in....

Another day, another dose of the Gore Effect.....