Posted on 09/04/2007 3:28:23 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
A BRITISH yachtsman attempting the first solo Arctic sea passage across northern Russia was examining his options after heavier than expected ice blocked his route, his manager said.
Adrian Flanagan is discussing with Russian authorities the possibility of using a nuclear-powered icebreaker to lift his boat out of the water and carry it round the most icebound stretch of Russia's Northern Sea Route.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Yeah, its a terrible thing when you find out that despite all the reports of global warming, ice is still going to block your arctic voyage. Better sue algore for ruining your trip.
Idiot, meet Reality.
Try to get along, willya?
Yeah. This moron actually bought into the Global Warming ideology so much that he actually believed that ice conditions in the arctic north of Siberia would be light enough for him to circumnavigate the arctic. I don’t think he even investigated the conditions first. He just believed the bull that algore was peddling about Global Warming and that was enough for him. Now he is trapped by the ice and his own stupidity. I wonder if he will lose his yacht?
Sailor to ship:"Carry me!"
The Russians, who are sitting on the only available supply of Carbon Credits, should a cap-and-trade approach to CO2 control come about, have nooooooo reason to lie about global warming... Right? The fact that any realistic plan to control global CO2 production would basically grant them a license to print hard currency would not play into their thinking on this matter at all.
You know, it’s a shame that reality never stopped any social engineers from pursuing their fantasies with our tax dollars.
Isn’t there some way to turn social engineers into ice-locked bear-scat?
lol he should have brought a can of hair spray aerosol...
reality kind of smacks idiots in the face at proper intervals.
he might even be eaten by the polar bears that can swim and are growing in numbers, despite Al Gore idiocy to the contrary
Bwha-ha-ha-ha ha
if a polar bear eats him, he should be a shoo-in for the Darwin Award
Who has a motivation to lie about Global Warming?
Algore - Obviously. It is his ticket out of political obscurity
Russia - They stand to make Hundreds of Billions of Dollars by selling unused carbon credits
China - They can eliminate competition by the Industrialized West
India - They can reduce the cost of their own energy imports by stifling international demand
Europe - They will be slitting their own throats, but they will be able to do so with a smug sense of superiority, which is all that matters to the Europeans.
Canada - The Canadians are not lying. They actually believe this stuff.
South America - South and Central America cannot make themselves richer, but they can make the US poorer, which is the next best thing
Africa - Africa can blame all of their problems on Global Warming, instead of on their own incompetence and corruption. Global Warming is the latest excuse, following slavery, colonialism, capitalism, cultural imperialism and communism.
The Global Warming movement has global support because it has been carefully constructed to give every nation, except the United States, a reason to pretend that Global Warming is real. Given the motivations, only the thinnest veneer of crediblity is required to get these nations to sign off on doing what they have wanted to do all along.
That is EXACTLY what he is now worried about. Read this ARTICLE titled, "As Adrian Flanagan waits for the ice to clear he's been told to keep a careful watch for polar bears."
I guess those pics global warming alarmists use from that one year when the arctic ocean had a large ice free passage, and have used constantly every year since can be a real bummer to idiots attempting pointless and stupid things.
They should make these fools pay for the rescue expenses when they get in trouble. The bill for a Russian nuclear powered ice breaker ought to sober the guy up.
Adrian Flanagan believed the main stream media “No Arctic Ice” hype to his detriment.
Conditions won’t be gettig any better for this sailor. From here on, conditions in the arctic get colder. More ice which means he’s going to be TRAPPED there until at least next year.
Go Bears!!
They’ll be airdropping him food monthly, he’ll have to fight the bears for it, assuming they don’t find him tasty.,p.likely they will say he was greasy and gamey
Not only do they believe it, they think they can stop it by reduced their c02 output, even though they only contribute less than one percent of the industrialized worlds total c02 output with all their lights turned on at once and factories running full bore. The cold air must really slow their brain wave activity
??? And the point of that useless exercise would be what?
HAHAHAHA! What a moron. He just made this years top ten living Darwin award winners.
to save his skiiny rear end from death by polar bears
Dontcha just know the Polar Bear is going to sit back and say “hmmm....tastes like chicken!”.....
Hold muh beer while I try this...
blah blah blah
now he's stranded on an uncharted iceberg with polar bears, swimming sharks underneath and laughing russians a mile away taunting all the day...
anyway, I need sleep -obviously- go bears!! (and I am a Cowboys fan)
Not only that, but it puts wads of cash into his pockets.
This idiot thought that he was going to get:
Instead, gets a good dose of unhealthy reality:
Maybe he will freeze... a greenie-cicle!
LLS
His plan had been to pass through the straits of Vil’kitskogo by 15 August, but unlike recent summers this year the ice has not yet cleared. His worry is that if the ice does not do so soon, he will be forced to abandon his attempt to become the first person ever to circumnavigate the Earth via the polar regions, solo. There is hope that he might be able to join an ice-breaker convoy if and when the ice thins sufficiently. But Adrian’s latest news is that the ice is impenetrable, even with the assistance of a nuclear powered ice-breaker. A further impediment is that these convoys typically travel at 8-10 knots, which is too fast for Adrian’s yacht Barrabas to keep pace.
He became somewhat confused after receiving weather condition reports from the Russian Marine Operations HQ which constantly seemed to refer to light and moderate winds while he was experiencing winds in excess of 30 knots. In the end he realised that he was being given wind speeds in metres per second rather than knots.
No, all of the polar bears are trapped on drifting icebergs. Didn’t you see the movie? LOL!
Only polar bears and englishmen go out in the arctic sun?
Fwee Bawabas!
So very true. That's an excellent post.
” In the end he realised that he was being given wind speeds in metres per second rather than knots. “
These GW cultists really don’t do any of that science stuff very well, do they?
” Fwee Bawabas! “
WHAD’JA SAY? FREEZE THE JACKASS? CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THIS 30-METER-PER-SECOND WIND!
Adrian! It sucks to be you!
Unfortunately it rarely sinks in. It's sort of like that cult/religion phenomenon where the followers redouble their faith when their leader's predictions don't come true.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a stupid schmuck
Who thought he'd sail through Arctic seas
Without his getting stuck
His name is Wrong Way Flanagan
A name that Nature dealt
He bought the global warming crap
And bet the ice would melt
And bet the ice would melt
The weather started getting cold
The ice began to form
And soon Wrong Way began to see
The globe is not that warm
The globe is not that warm
It's been an Inconvenient Tour
And Wrong Way's paid the price
His yacht is stuck in dire straits
Conditions, not so nice
The polar bears are hungry too
Here on Flanagan's Ice!
Hopefully the Russians will air-drop plenty of vodka. If he manages to get his blood-alchohol level high enough he might be able to survive. Heck, in the spring he may stagger out of his yacht sporting a nose that'd make Boris Yeltsin envy!
I’ve heard that Africa has bigger problems then Global Warming(TM) and they laugh at the fools who were their for the Live Earth concert and that all these things to stop Global Warming(TM) would actually hurt Africa if implemented.
As to these unused carbon credits Russia has, I still can’t figure out what they are. It seems like carbon credits are nothing so Russia has hundreds of billions of dollars in unused nothing to sell?
Really, for some years, I’ve seen the Global Warming(TM) hysteria as a way for neo-feudalists to seize back control of the land and make us all their serfs by scaring people into giving up their land rights. Or, where people can’t be scared, just eventually take them with the blessing of the duped.
It's going to get mighty scary out there on that 35 ft boat when the polar bears discover him. He's much easier to catch than a walrus, and much less dangerous. Why would the cash-strapped Russians spend the money and effort to run their nuclear ice breaker out to rescue a fool who was warned of the dangers?
I doubt whatever locks or doors he has available will keep either one or several hungry polar bears from ripping his boat to pieces to get at the tasty, warm morsel inside. It might be a nightmare ending for this guy.
The Kyoto Treaty calls for industrialized nations, including Russia, to cut CO2 emissions reletive to a 1990 baseline. Since in 1990, the Soviet Union was still in business, Soviet CO2 emissions were much higher than Russian emissions are today. Therefore, Russia has the right, under Kyoto, to emit much more CO2 than they currently are.
Therefore, if Kyoto ever goes into general effect, Russia will be sitting on the only available rights to produce excess CO2, which they will be able to sell to other industrialized nations for a king's ransom if Cap and Trade goes into effect.
What a DA!
Thanks for the explanation. Carbon credits just seem so fictional to me. Do the credits have any value if countries like the USA don’t sign the treaty?
If Kyoto fails, they have no value, whatsoever. That is why Russia is strongly in favor of Kyoto. It will give them a license to trade nothing for hard currency, which sounds like a pretty good deal for them, doesn't it?
My initial point was that the Kyoto deal gives everybody something that they wanted all along, and allows them to take it, all the while pretending to be motivated by some high-and-mighty purpose. If Global Warming turns out to be a complete sham, it doesn't matter, because everybody has gotten what they want out of the deal.
Except the United States. The US is screwed. But that's part of the deal, too.
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