"Think we should finish that blog entry for her?"
Posted on 03/19/2007 8:05:01 AM PDT by milwguy
Yesterday I posted this quote from Elizabeth from the Will Steger Foundation global warming expedition to the artic..............
It felt so good to be back on trail. The weather was relatively warm for this time of year, there was little wind and the sun was shining. The mountains plunge dramatically to the ice on all sides. The U-shape of the head of the fiord ahead of us gave us a clue to the glaciations that sculpted this land, grinding away the granite to leave sheer walls of bare rock. I felt like I was inside an I-Max movie.
I couldn't help but think, however, that the weather we were having in the middle of March would have been typical May weather fifty years ago. We were able to take our mitts off to take photos without freezing our hands. We were all wearing sunglasses and not goggles to protect our faces. None of us were wearing our heavy parkas. It was hard to believe that we were about to cross over the Arctic Circle.
I was thinking how although I am dogsledding through the Arctic, I am not experiencing the harsh Arctic of years past.
Waterfall ascent on Weasel River • Extreme winds and blowing snow and sand • Worst campsite ever • Good team building experience Crossed the Arctic Circle • Pounded by 50mph/80kph wind • Never seen anything like this
So in one day they have gone from the global warming balmy weather into a blizzard. I hope they are safe, but I can't help but chuckle about the lies this group has put forth so far in their journey. One of the members has already gotten frostbite and had to temporarily abandon the journey.
Considering that the Earth's temperature has increased one degree Fahrenheit in the last hundred years, the only global warming these guys are experiencing is in their minds.
I'm a little confused- I thought they abandoned their expedition when a member got severe frostbite.
What happened to get them back on track?
D
That was a different one, with the two lesbians.
I can just hear it now. "The sudden, unexpected blizzard after a warm sunny day is just further proof of how unpredictable the climate has become due to global warming".
There's money to be made and lots of power for the taking for those who assume leadership roles in all of this 'climate change' nonsense, so expect the pseudo-scientists and the sleezy politicians to be crawling out of the woodwork for many years to come with hysterical reports of human-caused climate change. And there are more than enough little socialist dupes out there who want to bring the world back to its 18th century "purity" too. In the soul of every man is the natural desire to worship something higher than ourselves, and since this is the age of anti-religion that "something higher" has become science, the worship of man's puny, corrupted intellect.
After they thawed out Elizabeth, the writer of most of their daily journals, she re-joined the group on their trek. She was the one who posted the balmy, May like weather report from saturday. Now they are stuck in below zero F temps, 35-50 mph winds, snow, and what is called a 'blizzard'. They will be holed up in their tents for a couple days until the weather clears, then they will crawl out of their tents and proclaim 'global warming' is ruining the artic, killing the polar bears, and melting all the glaciers. That is, if they are not frozen stiff.
It sounds like Bush's fault.
Best thread all day!
I am about to start my society in favour of global warming, because a warmer climate means a more comfortable world.
My slogan: "Palm trees in Pittsburgh!"
My goal is to banish this annual nightmare we call "Winter", and to have 70degF temperatures at the North Pole, so expeditions like hers can be enjoyed in comfort.
Are you in?
D
(Note: My research shows that global warming increases temperatures during this "winter" and does not much affect summer temperatures or those in warmer climates. So we should be able to warm up the North Pole without making Bermuda a nightmare place. Hauling the polar icecaps to a place like Dubai where the might be a useful, marketable commodity is another part of my plan.)
"Think we should finish that blog entry for her?"
The latest dispatches from these "moroons" indicate the blizzard hit them very hard and damaged their tents.
One dispatch from Monday says "... life threatening but no problem here, there is safety in numbers. We moved into one of the other tents."
Its a good thing global warming has made the trip so pleasant.
No news from them in almost wo days. The blizzard is still raging and will through tomorrow. If they saw the weather forecast before left town on sunday they would have realized what a foolish idea it was. There had been blizzard warning posted two days before they left.
Somewhere far, far to the south where it is summer, a group of global warming scientists are trapped in the Antarctic ice. If you missed the irony of that situation, it is because much of the mainstream media has glossed over that rather inconvenient bit of hilarity. As an example here is an Associated Press story that avoids mentioning the real mission of the scientists aboard the icebound Russian ship:
The Snow Dragon icebreaker came within 7 miles (11 kilometers) of the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been stuck since Christmas Eve, but had to retreat after the ice became too thick, said expedition spokesman Alvin Stone.
The Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been on a research expedition to Antarctica, got stuck Tuesday after a blizzard's whipping winds pushed the sea ice around the ship, freezing it in place. The ship wasn't in danger of sinking, and there are weeks' worth of supplies for the 74 scientists, tourists and crew on board, but the vessel cannot move.
So what was the exact mission of these scientists? AP is rather vague about this reporting only:
The scientific team on board the research ship — which left New Zealand on Nov. 28 — had been recreating Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's century-old voyage to Antarctica when it became trapped. They plan to continue their expedition after they are freed, expedition leader Chris Turney said.
Um, there is a bit more to the expedition than merely following in the footsteps of a century-old voyage. But what that mission really is, AP won't say. If AP is vague about the mission's purpose, Reuters provides even less information.
Since the MSM isn't forthcoming as to the real purpose of those scientists traveling to Antarctica, we turn to Watts Up With That for more insight:
The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”
It seems they found out what the “environmental changes taking place in the south.” are.
Finally, National Geographic bluntly states the mission purpose:
...The current crop of explorers are hoping to document some of the same data and compare them to Mawson's numbers, "using the twist of modern technology," Turney told National Geographic earlier this month.
As may be expected, global warming might play a role in this, he suggests, particularly with respect to melted ice in the East Antarctic.
Ah, so now we see why the MSM reluctance to flat out state why the scientists are in the Antarctic. Anything to avoid an inconvenient (but accurate) headline like this:
GLOBAL WARMING SCIENTISTS TRAPPED IN ANTARCTIC ICE
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