From the Canadian Broadcasting Company:
In Iqaluit, icebreaker paves way for season's supply ships
After weeks of delay, ice and weather conditions in Frobisher Bay finally gave way this weekend, allowing a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to carve a path to Iqaluit's shore for this season's first supply ships.
"It's completely atypical. Usually by this date the first ships are already in Iqaluit for a few days," says Louis Robert, the marine communications and traffic services officer for the Coast Guard.
Robert says he has not seen delays like this in more than a decade.
The icebreaker Pierre Radisson had been waiting at the mouth of Frobisher Bay, with unseasonal ice conditions, fog and wind direction delaying its arrival.
"In the middle of Frobisher Bay right now is a large floe of multi-year and first-year ice which exceeds approximately 10 kilometers in width," says Mike Desormeaux, the Coast Guard's acting regional director of the Coast Guard.
But everything is warming and the ice caps are disappearing!!!
Quite the opposite - we seem to be heading into an extended cooling similar to the 100-year Maunder Minimum of the 1650's.
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