I had written about this before. As the ice melts in the Arctic Ocean there will be movement of ice flows into the Northern passages and Northern Atlantic. The Arctic Ocean flows FROM the North Pacific INTO the Northern Atlantic. The question is NOT are the passages into the Northern Atlantic clogged with ice flows, but, are the passages in the Northern Pacific clogged with thick, old ice. The answer is NO. Come one already, this is not rocket science. If the Pacific is 'jammed' with 'aged' ice flows then I'll be impressed.
Ice pockets choking Northern Passage: officials (click title to entry - thank you)
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service
August 1, 2009
Despite predictions from a top U.S. polar institute that the Arctic Ocean’s overall ice cover is headed for another “extreme” meltdown by mid-September, the Environment Canada agency monitoring our northern waters says an unusual combination of factors is making navigation more difficult in the Northwest Passage this year after two straight summers of virtually clear sailing.
In both the wider, deep-water northern corridor and the narrower, shallower southern branches of the passage, the Canadian Ice Service says pockets of more extensive winter freezing and concentrations of thicker, older ice at several key “choke points” are complicating ship travel....
