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Best of the Web: Two icebreakers sent to rescue TWENTY ice-locked ships on Northern Sea Route in the Arctic

Atle Staalesen
The Barents Observer
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:00 UTC
icebreaker
But some of the vessels will have to wait for at least one week before they are released from captivity in the remote Arctic sea-ice.

Comment: Although SOTT picked up this story when the drama began back on the 8th of November, unsurprisingly it has gone largely unreported by the mainstream, global-warming/climate-crisis propaganda press, and the first part of this update is actually from 10 days ago, with more recent developments below.


District authorities in the Russian Far East have decided to commission two icebreakers to aid the vessels currently ice-locked in the East Siberian Sea.

The nuclear-powered Yamal is due to arrive in the region by 20th of November, while the diesel-powered Novorossiisk will arrive by 15th of November, regional authorities in Chukotka inform.


Comment: Note the ships aren't relying on 'green' energy to get the job done.


In addition will be sent the rescue vessel Spasatel Zaborshchikov.

Comment: Fleetmon gave an update on the situation yesterday, 19th November:
Icebreaker VAYGACH is leading convoy of Far East bound 5 ships, including NORDIC NULUUJAAK, GOLDEN SUEK, NORDIC QINNGUA, GOLDEN PEAR, UHL FUSION. Have a look at convoy track, it's a broken curve, usual tactics in battling ice cover and floes. Icebreaker is leading ships, trying to use each and every ice-free patch/area her helicopter can find. All in all, everything is so far, absolutely normal, something to be expected from NSR late fall transit routine. Convoy is already in Chukcha sea, will reach Bering Strait in probably 2-3 days or maybe even earlier, Arctic is unpredictable in this sense, up until last minutes and meters of transit.
bering strait
© Fleetmon.com
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Icebreaker VAYGACH in Arctic ice 2021
Sea Ice Extent
Sea Ice Extent 18th November 2021
West bound ships, including MV KUMPULA, are stuck in ice north of Kotelny island, bordering Laptev and East Siberian seas, waiting most probably, for icebreaker TAYMYR, presently positioned in Obskaya Gulf.

New FleetMon Vessel Safety Risk Reports Available: https://www.fleetmon.com/services/vessel-risk-rating/

Latest Arctic ice cover map, no signs yet of ice-free Arctic with palm trees to, soon, fringe its' coast

In some areas, ice edge already surpassed median 1981 - 2010 ice edge
Research indicates that ice ages can come on rather quickly, and there are numerous signs that our planet is now entering a period of significant cooling: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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'We need people to keep their head': Grocers, suppliers struggle to refill empty shelves in flooded B.C.

Jake Edmiston
Financial Post
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:17 UTC
Near-empty shelves line a grocery store in Kelowna this week, following catastrophic flooding in British Columbia.
© CHRISTIAN SASSENear-empty shelves line a grocery store in Kelowna this week, following catastrophic flooding in British Columbia.
Rosedale Grocery ran out of milk around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The store in Rosedale, B.C., a little farming town about two hours east of Vancouver, didn't receive a shipment all day Tuesday. The produce truck didn't show, neither did the dairy truck or the truck carrying non-perishables, all due to floods that have choked off highway access for much of the province's lower mainland.

"When we ran out of milk, that was kind of the nervous point," Rosedale Grocery manager Caitlin Lajeunesse said. "We had to have someone set up at our front door, just to not let people in because you couldn't move in the store, there was so many people."

Provincial authorities and retail industry leaders have tried to talk down a wave of panic buying in B.C. stores since Tuesday, amid fears that washed-out roads and rail lines could result in temporary shortages, including dairy.

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Florida tops 1,000 manatee deaths in grim single-year record

Curt Anderson
Wave3.com
Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:56 UTC
In this Dec. 28, 2010 file photo, manatees swim in a canal in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
© Lynne SladkyIn this Dec. 28, 2010 file photo, manatees swim in a canal in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
More than 1,000 manatees have died in Florida so far this year, eclipsing a previous annual record as the threatened marine mammals struggle with starvation due to pollution in the water.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported the updated total on Wednesday. The 1,003 manatee deaths so far in 2021 is many more than the 637 recorded last year and well above the previous mark of 830 set in 2013.

Slow-moving, bulky manatees have long struggled to coexist with humans. Boat strikes account for some deaths and many injuries. But state officials and environmental groups say polluted water runoff from agriculture, sewage and other man-made development has caused algae blooms in estuaries, choking off the seagrass upon which manatees rely. Climate change is worsening the problem.

Authorities expected another bad year for manatees, with more deaths to come as Florida enters the winter months when the animals congregate in warm-water areas where food supplies have dwindled. Seagrass beds on the state's eastern coast have been hit especially hard.

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Signs and Portents: Turtle born with two heads and six legs at New England Wildlife Center

Karolin Wiltgrupp
Ttag24.com
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:14 UTC
2 HEADS
You don't see a creature like this every day: A turtle was born with two heads and six legs at the New England Wildlife Center!

An animal hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts recently took to Facebook to announce the birth of a rare turtle.

The two-headed and extra-legged creature was amusingly named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, after the celebrity twins.

"It is a rare anomaly that can result from both genetic factors and environmental factors that affect the embryo during development," the wildlife center explained of the extra limbs and head.

Similar to conjoined human twins, these animals share some parts of their bodies, but not all of them.
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Signs and Portents: Mutant calf born with two heads, six legs and two tails in Turkey

Kirsty Card
Daily Star (UK)
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:03 UTC
The calf which was born dead by caesarean section
The calf which was born dead by caesarean section
A mutant newborn calf with two heads, six legs and two tails has been born in Turkey.

The strange creature was stillborn in the rural neighbourhood of Bahcearasi in the district of Cine, during the early hours of November, 7.

Erdem Celik, 38, discovered the calf when he noticed that one of his cows was having difficulty giving birth.

The farmer called veterinarian Huseyin Aynur, who came to assist technician Selim Gokcen with the delivery.
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Signs and Portents: Mutant two-headed calf born with pig-like body and double tongue baffles Russian farmer

Charles Wade-Palmer
Daily Star (UK)
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:56 UTC
A two-headed calf with a pig's body was born in
© Ninel Karacakova/NewsflashA two-headed calf with a pig's body was born in Khakassia, Russia
A mutant calf with two heads and a pig-like body has baffled a farmer in Russia.

The freakish animal, which resembled two pigs more than a newborn cow, did not survive its birth which sadly also killed the mother.

Vets studied the calf in the village of Matkechik, Khakassia earlier this month after a farmer reported the bizarre abnormality.

A photo taken of the lifeless beast shows its hairless pink body laid on the ground with its hind legs splayed.

Looking at the two heads, both eyes appear sewn shut and not one but two tongues are pictured dangling on either side of its front hooves.
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Oh No! A cold spell now will spawn Climate Change illiteracy

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:32 UTC
Interglacial Temp
© JoNova
It's another great day in science. Marshall Shepherd, once a meteorologist at NASA GISS, warns us that a cold snap will destroy reading skills. Don't let the kids out!
A Cold Start To Thanksgiving Week Will Spawn Climate Change Illiteracy

Marshall Shepherd, Senior Contributor, Forbes
Luckily this only happens in Thanksgiving week, eh?

As the climate cycles turn to cooler trends, expect to see a lot more of this kind of bizarre conjecture and weapons grade excuses. There's a flock of believers to guard from reality.

Shepherd seems to be trying to preempt and inoculate believers who might get exposed to skeptical comments at Thanksgiving dinner when they meet all those relatives:
Like clockwork, I will also start to see Tweets and Facebook posts claiming that global warming or climate change is not real because its cold. These types of Tweets belong in the Hall of Fame (or Shame) of Climate Illiteracy.
So now believers are primed to gasp or snigger at the right moment round the dinner table. Marshall goes on with a longwinded explanation of how it's cold now because a rock hit the Earth when it was a baby-world and made winter. He even links to a childrens page at NASA — possibly because most believers are child-like, or he thinks they are not too smart.
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Blue Planet

Rapid & significant land subsidence in Cartagena, Colombia, revealed by satellite data

Angela Nicoletti, Florida International University
Phys.org
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:00 UTC
Cartagena
© Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainCiudad Amurallada. The Walls of Cartagena.
A rapid rate of land subsidence could make sea level rise estimates worse for one of Colombia's tourist destinations. This could serve as a warning sign to other coastal cities.

FIU geophysics professor Shimon Wdowinski, Juan Restrepo-Ángel from EAFIT University in Colombia and a team of international scientists found Cartagena on the Caribbean Sea is experiencing serious subsidence with some areas subsiding at rates up to almost half an inch a year. Combined with the effects of rising seas due to the climate crisis, increased coastal flooding and erosion, this degree of subsidence could make matters much worse.

"So far, coastal flooding has occurred mainly due to storm surge, but with rising sea level and coastal subsidence, we expect an increasing frequency of flood events," Wdowinski said. "It is clear subsidence poses a major threat to Cartagena's preservation."


Comment: There's no evidence that, on the whole, sea levels are rising: Kiribati and China to develop farm land in Fiji, land had been predicted to 'disappear under a rising ocean'


Comment: Notably, that's not the only location where changes like this have been noted: And it's even more interesting when one takes into account the uptick in sinkholes, seismic, and volcanic activity in recent years: See also: Expanding Earth? New theory on how Earth's tectonic plates may have formed

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Ice Cube

Arctic sea ice extent currently second-highest in 15 years, and growing...

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:50 UTC
polar bear
Arctic sea ice data is in plain view of the world's media, yet outlets would still rather quote activist-scientists than show an unambiguous chart. Articles of "catastrophic ice melt" still pepper the global news feeds, even as signs point to a cyclical shift in the northern polar region.

I'm being consciously naive here. I'm fully aware that the media's job isn't to inform; rather, it exists to propagandize and to push the agendas and narratives of its backers. Still, I can't help but wonder, when a placard-brandishing climate alarmist yells "the end is nigh!", who exactly is it that they've put their trust in? Who told them that the sky is falling? I ask because you do need to be informed of the 'climate crisis' in order to discern it — your own senses aren't enough. People aren't opening their front doors in the morning to an 'existential emergency', they aren't retreating back inside, calling their bosses and saying "I wont be coming in today, you know... 'cause of the climate". This is supposed to be 'catastrophic global warming', remember? Not 'random, cherry-picked extreme weather events'? For what is billed as a 'worldly cataclysm', this warming sure is illusive, periodic and localized.
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Floods leave Canada grain stranded in 'disastrous' supply chaos

Jen Skerritt and Marcy Nicholson
Bloomberg News
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:41 UTC
The flooded Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford, British Columbia on Nov. 17.
The flooded Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford, British Columbia on Nov. 17.
Mountains of wheat and canola are stranded in Canada after storms blocked access to the Port of Vancouver during peak shipping season.

There's no rail access to Canada'a biggest port after days of torrential rain and landslides. About 20 vessels are waiting for deliveries, while a couple hundred thousand tons of grain are stuck in transit, according to Quorum, a company that monitors Canada's grain transportation system.

It's so bad that some exporters may even be forced to declare force majeure to avoid penalties as they won't be able to make deliveries on time, said Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association.

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