Open water in Frobisher Bay; three days of rain in Iqaluit

[Newsjock]

Source: Nunatsiaq News

The eternal darkness that blankets the high Arctic three months a year is becoming brighter every year and, according to one observer, it’s the result of global warming.

Wayne Davidson, a longtime weather station operator in Resolute Bay — one of Canada’s most northerly communities — said Inuit hunters have noticed for years that the dark Arctic night is becoming lighter.

... The new kind of light — that takes various shades of blue, green and red — has been noticed not only by residents in Resolute Bay, but also in other hamlets on Baffin Island.

... The sea ice used to freeze up in November but this winter the hunters were only able to go on the ice for the first time on Monday.

... In the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit, it rained from Monday to Wednesday and there is still open water in the bay.

Read more: http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/98789_climate_change_brings_illumination_to_arctic_winter/

[Octafish]

1. I wonder if Corporate McPravda will run this story.

It's only a matter of life and death for billions.

[Electric Monk]

2. Let's all sing "Happy" Happy! Joy! Joy!" and see if it helps.

[Octafish]

4. That always helps!

Then, there's the reality, seen from Schickelgrüber's POV:
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."



And so the BFEE slowed things down, a bit.

[XemaSab]

3. k&r

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[Odin2005]

5. Kick

[Urban Prairie]

6. I have been checking temps in communities within Nunavut on occasion since October

Several weeks ago, it was a near-freezing 28 degrees F, at Alert, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean for a few days, which is the most northerly but temporarily-staffed (rotation of scientists climate researchers) place in Canada, that is less than 1000 miles from the geographic North Pole. It usually averages about 50 or so degrees colder than that near the winter solstice.

not good.:-(