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Swimmer plans record North Pole swim [to highlight global warming]
Reuters ^ | May 28, 2007 | John Joseph

Posted on 05/28/2007 10:10:14 AM PDT by Zakeet

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1 posted on 05/28/2007 10:10:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Well isn’t that special.


2 posted on 05/28/2007 10:11:26 AM PDT by samtheman
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I thought this was going to be about Ted Kennedy.

Nevermind.

3 posted on 05/28/2007 10:13:43 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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There is something very odd about this man. This would kill your average person in a few minutes, if that long.


4 posted on 05/28/2007 10:14:25 AM PDT by CheyennePress
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Such a swim would have been impossible as little as 10 years ago because the water would have been frozen, Pugh says.

Not true but I suspect he knows this. When I was in elemenary school we learned about the shifting ice and how cracks (Leads) open and close all the time.
5 posted on 05/28/2007 10:14:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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I’ve been refreshing to see to how many posts it would take for him to be mentioned. :-)


6 posted on 05/28/2007 10:14:52 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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“”Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer,” said Pugh, “

Duhhhh!

Who’da thought ice MELTS in the SUMMER.


7 posted on 05/28/2007 10:16:09 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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What about “shrinkage?”


8 posted on 05/28/2007 10:17:09 AM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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Such a swim would have been impossible as little as 10 years ago because the water would have been frozen, Pugh says.

"Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at 0 degrees Celsius.

Ah, the sound of the clueless elitist...who while proclaiming that most people have no idea that you can find patches of open water at the North Pole, also doesn't realize himself that it's not simply a recent development.

9 posted on 05/28/2007 10:17:36 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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This article sounds like it's phase 1 of a Darwin Alert post.

He'll probably be devoured by a polar bear.

10 posted on 05/28/2007 10:18:00 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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He probably freeze to death.


11 posted on 05/28/2007 10:21:17 AM PDT by freekitty
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I thought it was too I was wondering how they were going to get the Oldsmobile up to the North pole.


12 posted on 05/28/2007 10:27:57 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
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To: Bigh4u2

Didn’t the submarine Nautilus surface at the North Pole?


13 posted on 05/28/2007 10:33:34 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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Teddy is going north?


14 posted on 05/28/2007 10:35:12 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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"A British adventurer." ROTFL!

It must be nice to not have to work for a living like the rest of us.

15 posted on 05/28/2007 10:36:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Mexico! The number one importer of poverty to the United States.)
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I thought this was going to be about Ted Kennedy.

LOL! Living in his home state and old enough to remember what happened, I too thought it was about "the swimmer"!

16 posted on 05/28/2007 10:37:29 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (My House is Guarded By A Shotgun 3 Days A Week.... Guess Which Days.)
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I think this guy should prepare first by reducing his carbon footprint dramatically.

Easy and free, and it is even carbon-credit neutral! Bang head faster for more power.

17 posted on 05/28/2007 10:38:24 AM PDT by M203M4 (What I wanna see is a pro-war ("kill the bastards") Ron Paul. Pacifism is suicide.)
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"He'll probably be devoured by a polar bear."

I don't think so. Global warming killed all but two. And they are stranded on an iceberg. I saw the picture.

18 posted on 05/28/2007 10:42:31 AM PDT by trek
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To: freekitty

my money is on that he freezes to death.


19 posted on 05/28/2007 10:42:41 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: samtheman
Look at the amateur!


20 posted on 05/28/2007 10:42:44 AM PDT by UnklGene
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