The media won't really emphasize this fact, but the kids being rescued are apparently out there to try and prove GLOBAL WARMING is real...and of course it is all man's fault.
Getting stuck in thickening ice...when it is SUMMER in the southern hemisphere strikes me as funny.
Al Gore's cult shown to be wrong again. :-)
To: SoFloFreeper; Revolting cat!
Ice breakers are killing the antarctic ice!
2 posted on
12/28/2013 6:46:42 AM PST by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: SoFloFreeper
the kids being rescued are apparently out there to try and prove GLOBAL WARMING is real I saw an interview yesterday with one of these guys on the Russian boat ....
He talked about their conditions, weather etc.....but he also said that THE PACK ICE HAD GROWN OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS....
so much for "global warming"
I guess it was so cold for him that his tears froze.
3 posted on
12/28/2013 6:47:43 AM PST by
spokeshave
(OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
To: SoFloFreeper
So why are these idiots being rescued?
4 posted on
12/28/2013 6:50:21 AM PST by
Hoodat
(Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
To: SoFloFreeper
The Global Warming was so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw.
5 posted on
12/28/2013 6:54:12 AM PST by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Last I heard, the Chinese icebreaker was not actually stuck, but could not get any closer to the ship it was trying to rescue.
7 posted on
12/28/2013 7:01:49 AM PST by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SoFloFreeper; All
It looks like the expedition leader is a “Global Warming” now “Climate Change” entrepreneur. He set up a couple of businesses to profit off of the scare.
Kind of hard to keep your “scientific objectivity” when you only profit if the scare is kept going.
http://www.christurney.com/
I do not know if has actually made any money off of this stuff, but someone is paying for this expedition.
9 posted on
12/28/2013 7:04:27 AM PST by
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: SoFloFreeper
I have no pity whatsoever, except for the rescuers.
To: SoFloFreeper
12 posted on
12/28/2013 7:13:30 AM PST by
Utah Binger
(Salt Lake City Utah with a foot of snow)
To: SoFloFreeper
Fear not any minute now global warming will hit and the ice and polar bears will be gone.
13 posted on
12/28/2013 7:18:48 AM PST by
bikerman
(Obama! if his lips are moving he's lying.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Well at least the kids are getting a REAL education about globull warming.
17 posted on
12/28/2013 7:56:09 AM PST by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: SoFloFreeper
The expedition is trying to update scientific measurements taken by an Australian expedition led by Douglas Mawson that set out in 1911. Must be a typo.
18 posted on
12/28/2013 8:03:38 AM PST by
Sawdring
To: SoFloFreeper
Hey, it’s summer down there, n’ est-ce pas? What’s the problem? Shackleton survived much worse.
21 posted on
12/28/2013 8:21:17 AM PST by
Past Your Eyes
(You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
To: SoFloFreeper
You can bet old Uncle Sap will spend millions to rescue these turds.
22 posted on
12/28/2013 8:21:28 AM PST by
kenmcg
To: SoFloFreeper
I don't know for sure, but I have operated in Arctic sea ice. The wind is compressing tho sea ice making the Soviet ship unable to move thru it. If the wind is really blowing it will blow sea ice floes on top of the existing sea ice. When the rafted ice get as high as the main deck of the Soviet ship they are in trouble because the sea ice will start to weigh the ship down. In the worse case, the Soviet ship will be sunk. (I am assuming that the Soviet ship has a strong enough hull to resist the horizontal pressure from the sea ice.) These guys are in deep kimchi and are perhaps too dumb to know. What they need is a wind shift or a world class ice breaker to try and break them out. Does anyone know what breakers are down there now?
To: SoFloFreeper
I especially like the line about the 74 reseachers,crew and tourist?! The Antartic is not what I would call a vacation destination
25 posted on
12/28/2013 9:13:38 AM PST by
blastdad51
(Typical middle-aged white patriot.)
To: SoFloFreeper
If they all freeze they would create tardcicles.
26 posted on
12/28/2013 9:27:25 AM PST by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: SoFloFreeper
The French icebreaker appears to have failed and been called back.
According to Wiki, the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis can break level ice up to 1.23 metres (4 ft 0 in) thick. The failed Chinese Snow Dragon is rated nearly the same at at 1.1 meters.
I've seen reports that the ice is now 3-4 meters thick. If true, it looks like the Australian icebreaker won't break through to the Akademik Shokalskiy.
32 posted on
12/28/2013 10:56:37 AM PST by
fso301
To: SoFloFreeper
Candidates for the Darwin Award?
34 posted on
12/28/2013 11:54:02 AM PST by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: SoFloFreeper
The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, was just six nautical miles away from the rescue, but now it's stuck in an Antarctica ice floe, too... That's what happens when you send a Snow Dragon to the South Pole to do a Fire Dragon's work...
(couldn't resist)
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