Supposedly the Arctic is the fastest warming place on Earth. The image above compares 1958 temperatures (green – the first year in the DMI record) vs 2011 temperatures north of 80N. Not a lot of difference between the current Arctic warm period and the previous one.
USS Skate at the North Pole, March 1959
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jul 30, 1957
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The photo of the USS Skate was not taken at the North Pole. When the Skate surfaced at the Pole, it had to break through a small, refrozen lead between heavily ridged ice. At the surface, the air temperature was -31C. That photo may have been taken the previous August, possibly when it surfaced in a polynya near ice-station Alfa.
You’ve already been informed this is NOT the USS Skate at the North Pole – why haven’t you issued a correction?
The photo of the USS Skate used here is a denialsphere creation myth. Actual photos of the event can be found here; taken from Surface at the Pole: the extraordinary voyages of the USS Skate, Commander James Calvert, 1961.
As Patrick Lockerby points out: In his book “Surface at the Pole”, Commander James Calvert, USN remarked of the 5th polyna found in 1959:
Lockerby continues: That ‘open water’ was found in March 1959, about 100 miles from the New Siberian Islands, a few days after surfacing at the pole. Previously, having found no open water, the USS Skate had surfaced at the pole through a frozen lead on March 17th. The ice was so thick that it did not obstruct the conning tower with fragments as previous thinner ice had done. Not only was the ice thick, but it was hummocked to a height estimated at 18 feet, “… the tallest we had yet seen in the Arctic.”
One of the easiest things to spot is the actual photos are taken by the light of handheld flares; your photo appears to be in daylight. On March 17, 1959 the sun had not risen yet at the North Pole – that wouldn’t happen for another 4 days. I think it’s time you did a new post on the USS Skate and used the correct photos and issued a retraction for misleading your readers.