This is a picture of the Polar Bears that were frequent visitors to a 'floating' Russian research station. This picture is posted at North Pole Station 33 (click here). There is a Russian research station, North Pole 35, whoms members need rescue as the ice that supports the station, no different than the ice that defines Polar Bear habitat is disappearing.
The research station was established in 2007, staffed by world class scientific staff. Their purpose was to extrapolate information regarding weather and climate.
Drifting station 'North Pole-35' set up in Arctic (click here)
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21/ 09/ 2007
ST. PETERSBURG, September 21 (RIA Novosti) - The drifting station research unit 'North Pole-35' was set up in the Arctic Friday, said Sergei Balyasnikov, a spokesman for the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
"The research unit will begin work by sending the first weather-report to the Global Weather Network", he said, adding that the Russian and St Petersburg flags would also be hoisted.
Balyasnikov said 22 researchers and scientists would work at the unit, most of them Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) staff, plus a German scientist from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
The unit was set up on a 3.3km-wide and 5km-long ice-floe with an average ice thickness of 1.5m....
I recommend 'the sound' of "Russian International Radio" at the link below. It's Russian, but, the 'sound' is classic. The preparation of North Pole - 35 was extensive and obviously was supposed to have a research and information longevity of more than its ten months of operation.
North Pole-35 drifting station is opened (click here)
Another project of the Arctic-2007, North Pole-35 drifting station has started to function. Academic Fyodorov scientific research ship found an ice floe with a suitable thickness 65 kilometers west of Northern Land. About 300 tons of cargo was unloaded on the ice floe and a scientific laboratory and 20 living quarters were installed on it. A diesel generator and a radio station were launched. The polar explorers have already sent details of weather conditions to the global network that collects meteorological data. There are 22 researchers, including a German scientist at the station. The work of the station will help explaining the reasons for global climatic changes and improving weather forecast. The North Pole-35 station was opened 70 years after the work of the famous North Pole-1 station headed by Russian polar explorer Ivan Papanin.
This is the link to North Pole 35 (click here). Or should I say, this WAS the link to North Pole 35. They obviously collected invaluable weather and therefore climate data.
To say the USA Executive Branch is 'out of touch' with reality is an understatement. When is impeachment proceedings going to go forward? The disruption of Russian North Pole 35 is concrete proof of the rapidly deteriorating global climate. What is occurring with the rapidly disappearing Arctic Ocean ice is Rapid Climate Change.
The inhabitants of Earth ain't seen nothing yet.
The USA should have a strong leadership position regarding this issue and we indeed have not only an Executive Branch that is troubled on all fronts; economic, militariy, domestic peace and strategies to provide viable and sustainable agriculture in the USA. but people 'without a clue.' To say the circumstances facing the future of Americans and their allies due to the incompetency of the USA Executive Branch is dire, is only to ignore the responsibility of the USA Legislative Branch to seek relief of the dangers that await continued leadership by Bush, Cheney, their cabinet and policital administration.
Write your legislators in the House and Senate asking for funding for alternative energies and transportation while seeking the impeachment of the President and Vice President !
The continued pursuit of fossil fuels is the most idiotic directive any educated leader could pursue. It makes no sense to continue down this path !
UPDATE 1-Reid rejects Bush call to lift drilling moratorium (click here)
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, on Monday rejected a call by U.S. President George W. Bush to lift a moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
Bush announced on Monday that he lifted the executive branch's restriction on offshore exploration, saying only Congress stood in the way of opening up America's untapped oil riches.
But Reid said oil companies should focus instead on drilling on much of the 68 million acres that they have leased but not used for exploration.
Asked, however, if he expected to have the votes to block legislation to lift the moratorium in face of soaring gasoline prices, Reid told a news conferences, "We will have to wait and see."
Reid said he hoped to have legislation introduced this week to crack down on oil speculators....
Glacier Bay Date Below
Local Time: 12:47 PM AKDT
Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137..0° W
Time :: 3:46 PM EST
Temperature :: 55 °F / 13 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 88%
Dew Point :: 52 °F / 11 °C
Wind :: Calm
Pressure :: 30.14 in / 1020 hPa (Steady)
Visibility :: 8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers
UV :: 2 out of 16
Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 3100 ft / 944 m
Mostly Cloudy 3900 ft / 1188 m
Overcast 9000 ft / 2743 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
