The Arctic whaling journals of William Scoresby the younger
1875 map detailing the Northwest Passage
29 Oct 1879 – DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-EAST PASSAGE.
“the latter part of the third summer was devoted to making the northwest passage. The Gjoa cruised along the shore and through the islands and straits of the coast of America…the Dolphin and Union Strait was clear of ice”
22 Sep 1906 – THROUGH THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE.
27 Sep 1911 – ARCTIC EXPEDITION. MADE NORTH- WEST PASSAGE. QUE…
You missed this:-
“It will without doubt have come to your Lordship’s knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.
(This) affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them not only interesting to the advancement of science but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations.”
President of the Royal Society, London, to the Admiralty, 20th November, 1817 ( Royal Society Archives)
good catch!……………….by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.
1817
Thanks. I added the original source.
WUWT had this June 09:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/20/historic-variation-in-arctic-ice/
So, during this time all the polar bears died and ‘we’ had to repopulate with bears from the zoo? No. Nature somehow made the bits fit and the polar bears survived. No doubt their population reduced but human interference in their re-establishment was not required.
Where were all the scaremongers and worry-makers of the past? They didn’t know how to make money out of such natural events back then?
of course they did….they sold hunting permits to shoot the bears
The National Ice Centre has weekly Arctic sea-ice charts dating back to 1st. January 1972. Go here :
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/products_on_demand.html
and click on “Arctic weekly”.
Check out September 1973 and zoom to region “Canadian Arctic West”. It looks to me as though the Northwest passage was open for a week or two.
Typical crap government web site. They still think that data access is sequential, like magnetic tape.
“Install Microsoft Silverlight®”
Umm, no. Shouldn’t government websites be required to allow multi-platform access?
When will our poor green friends open their minds to past proof and present fallacy. Obsession has blinded them to the technical advances of the past few decades.