Explorer suggests that SUVs caused the failure of his expedition

From this article, entitled "EXPLORER'S NORTH POLE ATTEMPT HALTED BY ICE":

A Plymouth-born explorer has been forced to abandon his bid to become the fastest man to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole.

Ben Saunders, 30, is to be rescued after his equipment failed in 'appalling' ice conditions.

The main bolts which attach the binding of his boots to his skis sheared off and the damage was beyond repair.

From Saunders' web site:

The ice conditions I have encountered have been the worst I have ever seen, and worse than I could have imagined. I am witnessing at first hand the disintegration of the last of the Arctic’s multi-year pack ice. If climate change in the high Arctic continues at its current rate, I may be one of the last to be able to attempt this journey on foot.

So the Arctic ice was flat and stable until human carbon dioxide emissions ruined it?

Maybe not.

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

Another excerpt from the 1909 article:

Five flags were planted at the the top of the earth, and a bottle containing records was deposited between the ice blocks of a pressure ridge.

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McNeill has already attempted to reach the centre of the Arctic Ocean in 2006. This attempt ended after, due to unseasonal conditions, he slipped into the water, which is so cold it would only take around 20 minutes to kill him. He pulled himself out of the water, but it was plain the conditions, brought on by climate change, were too dangerous to continue.

[If SUVs caused the open leads in 2006, what caused the open leads in 1909?]

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

The Catlin warmists think that we're stupid

[March 25, 2010: They want us to think that carbon dioxide caused the "recently refrozen open water" that they've seen] 

“The conditions we’re experiencing are unlike anything I’ve seen in any of the nineteen expeditions I’ve previously been on,” says Martin Hartley. “There are great swathes of only recently refrozen open water peppered with small snow-covered islands of ice in the distance. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come for Arctic travel?”

The open water is revealed when fields of the floating ice break apart due to underlying ocean currents and pressure exerted on it by winds or tides.

[But there's a problem: They've just spent the whole trip complaining about the intense cold, such as this March 22, 2010 entry]

A massive weather event forced the Ice Base to go into lockdown mode for two days this weekend. Starting on Friday evening, the team experienced gusting winds of up to 60mph and temperatures of -45 C, giving an effective ‘feels like’ temperature of -75 C.

[Flashback: If SUVs caused the open leads in 2006, what caused the open leads in 1909?]

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

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"I have been exploring the Arctic for 25 years and in this time I've seen the dramatic effects of global warming," Mr McNeill said.

"It used to be one solid sheet of ice that you could walk across.

"Now it's interspersed with stretches of icy water - if you look at it from satellite images it's like crazy paving, hence the need to build the Qajaq."

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation

...in this century, major PDO eras have persisted for 20 to 30 years...

2007: Jeremy Clarkson's drive to the north pole

I recently watched the 'Top Gear' special - where Jeremy and James May drove a specially modified Toyota Hilux pick-up to the magnetic North Pole from Canada's resolute bay!
That feat in itself is unbelievable, as it has never been done before: but what makes it so astonishing is that Jeremy and James managed to do it with a certain amount of ease.

1909: Peary talks about having to "cross and recross" open water in the Arctic

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...