Gullible Green sailors trapped in the Arctic:
"The naïve advice of ardent activists can kill.
Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer.
(So did Britain’s BBC network.)
This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled Northwest Passage.
As a former sailboat owner I can understand their excitement, but my heart aches for the agonies they now face.
The Arctic sea ice suddenly expanded 60% this fall, after the coldest summer in the modern Alaska temperature record.
The passage is now impassable.
More than a dozen of the boats are trapped, apparently even including a group of tiny American jet-ski “personal watercraft” that were attempting to cross from the east coast of Russia to the North Atlantic.
Arctic observers are now warning that even Canadian icebreakers might not be able to rescue them."
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