From The Weather Network
An international team of researchers called off their planned trip to study the effects of climate change on Hudson Bay when the ship they were travelling on was summoned to help rescue vessels from the effects of climate change.Read more here: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/climate-change-forces-cancellation-of-climate-expedition/83168The changes to our warming world are coming on so quickly now that researchers are having trouble conducting the research into how it is changing.
According to a CBC Newsarticle from Monday, BaySys, a climate research expedition from Quebec City to Hudson Bay, on board the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCSG Amundsen, was forced to cancel their plans when the ship was called to perform search and rescue operations in the Strait of Belle Isle, between Labrador and the island of Newfoundland.
"The requirements for search and rescue trumped the requirements for science," Dr. David Barber, the University of Manitoba climate scientist who was leading of the expedition, told CBC News. "The search and rescue calls were coming in quite fast and furious."
"We never had any issues in the past of this nature," Julie Gascon, the Canadian Coast Guard's Assistant Commissioner for the Central and Arctic Region, said in the CBCarticle. "It was just extreme ice conditions that required everything that we've got in order to make sure we were able to provide the services."
While the CCSG Amundsen conducted its search and rescue operations, the roughly 40 climate scientists on board used the instruments they had with them to study the ice in the Strait of Belle Isle, and they found something unusual.
The chunks of ice they encountered were not of the thin, one-year ice that is usually seen in the Strait at this time of year. Instead, it was multi-year ice, between 6-8 metres thick, of the kind that usually stays locked up in between the northern islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and in the waters of the Arctic Ocean to the north of those islands.
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