The ice on Hudson Bay isn't looking very healthy

[XemaSab]

Also, there's another article from Nunavut:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x130295

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Have been keeping up the stories coming from the north

This is worse each year....NW passage opens up, Inuits losing hunting grounds, polar cap melting, retreating, and more....and wasn't it years (couple of decades?) ago that scientists were paying attention to the huge retreat of the glaciers, but no one seemed to care?

Hi Xema! :hi: :loveya:

[joshcryer]

2. This is how 2010's ice free season started. Hudson Bay was ice free several weeks ahead of schedule.

We'll see if it happens this year, but I think it's a fairly safe bet that it'll at least beat the average by a week or two.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Reminds me of something....

[pscot]

4. I haven't been feeling so great myself

Must be something going around.

[XemaSab]

5. This is getting more interesting by the day

I know the whole bay could freeze over in two weeks, but we've got a little over a month to go before "peak" and (dare I say) the ice already appears to be leveling off.

Even if it does totally freeze over, the ice will be very thin.

I think summer's going to be a trainwreck up there.

[XemaSab]

6. And from this article:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/17/churchill

"Meanwhile, projections show Hudson Bay becoming nearly free of ice, year-round, by mid- to late-century. William A. Gough, a climatologist at the University of Toronto Scarborough, has spent a decade analyzing 35 years of sea ice records in Hudson Bay. He's projected its future using six different climate models created by government agencies around the world. "The Canadian model shows total ice reduction by 2050," he said. By 2080, when the carbon-dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will have tripled, the other models show the same result. "By the end of the century," he said, "there will be no platform for polar bears." And no platform for bear tourism."

Who wants to say it with me?