From the bizarro world of alarmist Cameron Dueck

9/23/09: Icy summer

[Cameron Dueck] There was more sea ice in the Arctic this summer than in the past two years, contrary to early spring ice forecasts and the longer term trend of melting sea ice.
“Arctic ice is holding in there, with about 20 percent more than in 2007,” Dr Humfrey Melling, a research scientist with Canada’s Institute of Ocean Sciences, told me.
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The Canadian Coast Guard was called upon to assist the sailing yacht Fiona in Peel Sound after the ice closed in on her and raised the boat clear out of the water. The German-flagged Perithia, surrounded by ice, had a polar bear walk up to the boat and try to enter the cockpit. Other boats were pushed onto the beach or had to wait for days for the ice to clear out of their way. Silent Sound was lucky…we had to change our sailing plans, port calls and time schedule to allow for the ice, but we escaped unharmed and completed the passage as planned.

9/19/09: Arctic sailor sees melting sea ice first-hand « MrGreen.Biz

The icy voyage would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but climate change is melting sea ice and changing northern life forever, [Cameron Dueck] said.

“The sea ice is melting faster than ever. In the last three years, we’ve seen the worst melting on record,” he said.