Posted on 03/28/2010 9:34:09 PM PDT by This Just In
Global Warming Activist, Journalist, Perish in Antarctica
Global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist were found frozen to death only 90 miles from their destination, South Pole Station, seen here during the warm season.
(Punta Arenas, Chile) Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures.
"I couldn't believe what I was seeing", recounted the pilot, Jimmy Dolittle. "There were two snowmobiles with cargo sleds, a tent, and a bright orange rope that had been laid out on the ice, forming the words, 'HELP-COLD'".
One friend of Prof. Schneider told ecoEnquirer that he had been planning a trip to an ice sheet to film the devastation brought on by global warming. His wife, Linda, said that she had heard him discussing the trip with his environmental activist friends, but she assumed that he was talking about the Greenland ice sheet, a much smaller ice sheet than Antarctica.
"He kept talking about when they 'get down to chili', and I thought they were talking about the order in which they would consume their food supplies", Mrs. Schneider recounted. "I had no idea they were talking about Chile, the country from which you usually fly or sail in order to reach Antarctica".
Apparently, while all of Prof. Schneider's friends were assuming that the July trek would be to Greenland, during Northern Hemisphere summer, his plans were actually to snowmobile to the South Pole - which, in July, is in the dead of winter.
Mr. Dolittle related how some people do not realize that, even if there has been warming in Antarctica, the average temperature at the South Pole in July still runs about 70 degrees F below zero. "Some people think that July is warm everywhere on Earth."
"And I was surprised to see how close they got to South Pole Station. They ran through all of their gas supplies for the snowmobiles", explained Doolittle. "They had cold weather gear and clothes, but during this time of year you just don't go outside unless it is an emergency."
"At least James died for something he believed in", said Mrs. Schneider. "He died while trying to raise awareness of the enormous toll that global warming is taking on the Earth."
Isn’t this an old article?
Very funny. Onionesque.
Now they have sequel material for Into the Wild 2.
God DOES have a sense of humor...
You can’t make this stuff up........
2008
Well, he failed miserably. He did, however, raise awareness of how stupid he was. RIP Dr. Popsicle and your amiable sidekick, Mr. Typical idiot journalist. Sorry to make light of the dead, but what else is there to say?
PING
It was in this blog in Feb 1, 2008.
http://petesplace-peter.blogspot.com/2008/02/global-warming-activist-journalist.html
Oh my. The wife and friends didn’t know where they were going? They assumed? And the ‘explorers’ didn’t know it was cold in Antarctica in July?
Well perhaps they will thaw out in the hereafter.
Even if it is an old article, it is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plus there is an added bonus at the website, a poll! Go vote.
and was this real or a spoof?
I think it was a spoof, if I recollect correctly.
“...forming the words, ‘HELP-COLD’”.
Like I said on the other thread about using satire. It’s almost impossible these days as the actual is so full of satire. (Obama’s i-pod gifts, etc.)
My sentiments exactly.
...found frozen.....somewhere there.....polar bear food....one more notch for global warming..../s
This has got to be a joke site...right?
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