[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wait a minute! Aren't these the two same doofuses that were going to travel to the Sun at night so they wouldn't get burned? LOL!

We're DOOMED! DOOMED, I tells ya! ;)

[ReadyNow]

Be of good cheer. No doubt the world is unfolding as it should.

[Thebaddog]

Would an honest scientist tell these two pollyannas that its a big universe and our sun is all they have for now.

[onevoter]

Article states, ""It's quite astounding to be that close," he said. "They must have thought we were big seals and would be a great meal."

Uhh, Yeah! And this is the "expert" who can confirm global warming! I wonder what he was smoking while in the wilderness.

[wvobiwan]

I doubt it, I'm sure it's just that they ran out of weed.

[Axenolith]

Note to intrepid expeditioners: START EARLIER!

[Red Sea Swimmer]

A poor workman blames his tools.

These guys blame their inept planning on a false scientific phenomena and cry to all and sundry about it. Bloody whingears !

[Bob]

After 24 days, they were only 45 miles from their starting point - 1,200 miles from their destination at Ward Hunt Island, Canada - and willing to admit defeat at the hands of an earlier-than-normal breakup of arctic ice. They had planned to complete the crossing in 100 days.

Hmmmm -- they had planned on averaging over 12 miles a day and actually did under 2 miles a day at the beginning of the trip?? At that rate, it would've taken them almost 2 years to make the trip.

[mmercier]

>>> Next year's trip also will enable them to continue talking publicly about the possible impacts of climate change, Larsen said.


"Talking publicly" is all they are about.

The rest is a recitation of various facts and harrowing tribulations about how the Arctic sux as far as non arctic critters are concerned.

Pussies. Anyone who can read knows the place is ever variable and always hostile to couch dwelling Homo spines. The arctic is hostile, if you are going to bi*ch about the conditions, then *don't go you nitwit*. Otherwise should you go, do not try to sell off climatological variations that you recently encountered as the reason the sky shall fall and you could not cover the ground.

Before their next great global warming foray, let us all hope that the polar bears are well fed.

Nature is variable, harsh and unpredictable in the extreme; slush this year in the arctic means nothing.

>>> Larsen admitted being "scared to death"

So he still has some common sense.

Probably bear food though in the end, needing to talk "publicly" about "global warming" being taken into consideration. Likely can't resist the fray.

In the end the bears need to eat too, and they do, that is why there are there.

[Archon of the East]

Funny, I was just there and the ice was fine.

[LasVegasMac]

explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen said they believe that climate change caused by global warming is breaking up the ice cap earlier than usual

Oh, crap.

I'm sure these two are completely qualified to say their $0.01 worth about global warming.

Oh, crap.

We are DOOMED.

LVM

[balrog666]

Gee, is it summertime already?

[PioneerDrive]

I used to work near Grand Marais, MN. There's a lot of moonbats, new agers, and liberals of all stripes. I don't know these fellas, though.

[Tribune7]

After four flares did not discourage it, Dupre finally drove it away by firing a .308-caliber rifle shell between its legs.

Ouch.

[Dallas59]

"Global Warming" or "Climate Change" or " Natural Weather"...

[CharlesWayneCT]

One Word: QUITTERS

[SouthTexas]

Global warming?

It's called SUMMER.

[Old Professer]

Anybody got a copy of that joke where the bear says, "You don't come up here for the huntin', do you?"

[WFTR]

Didn't Greenland used to be green? I've heard that when the Vikings found Greenland that it was warm for much of the year. If so, would it be safe to assume that the earth used to be warmer? If so, would it be safe to say that we can survive on a warmer earth?