Ice retreat worries climate-change scientists

Claude Dicaire, a forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service, told Postmedia News on Friday that while the southern route of the Northwest Passage is essentially clear, the same concentrations of ice in the Victoria Strait that famously doomed the 19th century Franklin expedition can quickly form in adverse weather conditions and menace ships today.

He said that the northern route of the passage, through the Parry Channel between Lancaster Sound in the east and the Beaufort Sea in the west, is still clogged with ice at certain points and may not open this year.

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Make no mistake: a surge of natural disasters is not "a sign from God" or rapture but a "sign from the Earth" about climate change/pollution

Al Gore to Rick Perry: Climate scientists aren't motivated by money - The Hill's E2-Wire

Al Gore on Friday bashed the notion that climate scientists are manipulating data for financial gain, a charge levied by global warming skeptics, including GOP White House hopeful Rick Perry.

“This is an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as a whole, to attack their integrity, and to slander them with the lie that they are making up the science in order to make money,” Gore said in an online interview.

“These scientists don’t make a lot of money. They are comfortable, as they should be, but they don’t make a lot of money. That is not their motivation for doing what they do,” Gore added.
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Gore broadly attacked what he called an organized campaign by fossil fuel interests to sow doubt about climate change and climate scientists, calling it based on tobacco industry campaigns of the past about the health effects of smoking.

Flashback: No Frakking Consensus: Al Gore's Tobacco Hypocrisy

Mr. Gore knew, because he had knelt beside his sister's bedside, that tobacco led to bad things. Yet six years later he was still accepting campaign donations from "tobacco industry political action committees."