On Mar 26, 9:25*am, Nightjar
wrote:
On 26/03/2013 08:23, Mike Lane wrote:

Mike Tomlinson wrote on Mar 26, 2013:

3) I have no particular leanings either way on the climate change
argument. *Some people say the amount of sea ice has hardly changed,
some say it's massively reduced. *I don't know who to believe.

I don't think there is any doubt that the arctic sea ice has reduced over the
last decade. The fact that the north west passage is now routinely navigable
during summer months is surely sufficient evidence of this?

https://hapaglloydcruises.wordpress....hwest-passage/

Roald Amundsen navigated it at the beginning of the 20th century and, if
you read the small print, Hapag Lloyd include a lot of let out clauses
that allow them to modify the itinerary.

Colin Bignell

More ********
It took him three years to do it because of being locked in ice for
two years continously.
Not the Summer conditions prevailing today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwe...sen_expedition