That’s silly. The effect of one icebreaker is negligible compared to the effect of the …planet’s climate changing.
This is like complaining about the campfire some rangers might light while visiting the site of a wildfire. Sure they might end up burning a few logs, but that’s negligible compared to what they have gone to witness.
We are also not talking about a huge volume of commercial icebreaker traffic consistently and systematically carving up ice floes. It’s one scientific mission.
Anyone who has such an insanely incorrect sense of scale that they even begin to consider a single icebreaker ship as having any sort of measurable impact compared to the sheer size of the Arctic is, indeed, silly in my book.
It’s a fair question in the same way asking if a speck of dust is an effective barrier against a tank is a fair question.
That’s silly. The effect of one icebreaker is negligible compared to the effect of the …planet’s climate changing.
This is like complaining about the campfire some rangers might light while visiting the site of a wildfire. Sure they might end up burning a few logs, but that’s negligible compared to what they have gone to witness.
We are also not talking about a huge volume of commercial icebreaker traffic consistently and systematically carving up ice floes. It’s one scientific mission.
It was a fair question, and you gave a reasonable answer. No need to call the person silly for not knowing something you do.
I didn’t call them silly as a person. I called their comment silly. Also, silly is no grave insult.
Anyone who has such an insanely incorrect sense of scale that they even begin to consider a single icebreaker ship as having any sort of measurable impact compared to the sheer size of the Arctic is, indeed, silly in my book.
It’s a fair question in the same way asking if a speck of dust is an effective barrier against a tank is a fair question.