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IT began as a journey to "investigate the impact of changing climate" and to "use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change" but more than 70 global warming activists, journalists and crew, led by University of NSW professor of climate change Chris Turney, are now trapped by millions of tonnes of ice after their ship was caught in freezing conditions off the Antarctic coast.
Denier! Cough, cough. It's not funny. No, not funny at all. Oh, all right. It's hilarious. And they're pretty confident that that tomorrow is going to arrive. They are in the prediction business, after all. Best stick to something with the preponderance of evidence on their side.Global warming activists still trapped by inconvenient ice
Talk about breaking news, it's dated tomorrow. Anyway, anybody else see humor in this?
Denier! Cough, cough. It's not funny. No, not funny at all. Oh, all right. It's hilarious. And they're pretty confident that that tomorrow is going to arrive. They are in the prediction business, after all. Best stick to something with the preponderance of evidence on their side.
Should happen any day now. Maybe we should send more ships just to see how many can get stuck. If they keep records on this, the trip could set some kind of record after all. I'd wait on the helicopters a while.I don't know why they're talking about an air rescue, they could just wait for the ice to melt.
Well, that puts to rest the notion that tomorrow never comes. Hell, it's already here. That puts procrastination in an entirely new light.It's dated tomorrow because where they are IS tomorrow. It was midnight in Sydney at 1300 GMT
I just LOVE stories like this..
Tim-
A friend told me about it. Predictably, it's not mentioned too much (if at all) in the US media.
I think what happened was that the AP picked up the story as just a ship stuck in the ice, and the rest of the media picked up the AP feed, BUT, then someone actually practiced journalism and found out that they were all global warming researchers... Ah crap..
Tim-
Except of course, they're not. It's being pushed as that by the denier camp, but many of the group are paying tourists, retracing the travels af an Australian explorer of 100 years ago.
Except of course, they're not. It's being pushed as that by the denier camp, but many of the group are paying tourists, retracing the travels af an Australian explorer of 100 years ago.
2. Why are we recreating the trip Mawson took one hundred years ago?
One hundred years after Mawson's journey, we still don't know much about the Antarctic.
Plus, the century mark for Mawson's trip serves as a marker of exploration. 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.
The group will also test the salinity of the ocean, take censuses of local bird populations, drill into the ice to extract mineral data, and send drones to map Antarctica's Commonwealth Bay.
Should happen any day now. Maybe we should send more ships just to see how many can get stuck. If they keep records on this, the trip could set some kind of record after all. I'd wait on the helicopters a while.
Except of course, they're not. It's being pushed as that
by the denier camp, but many of the group are paying tourists, retracing the travels af an Australian explorer of 100 years ago.
A change in wind direction piling sea ice
against the coast, trapping them, is a hazard of Antarctic exploration. The funny part is the rush of the ignorant to make something out of nothing in pursuit of their denier dogma.
Denier! Cough, cough. It's not funny. No, not funny at all. Oh, all right. It's hilarious. And they're pretty confident that that tomorrow is going to arrive. They are in the prediction business, after all. Best stick to something with the preponderance of evidence on their side.
A change in wind direction piling sea ice against the coast, trapping them, is a hazard of Antarctic exploration. The funny part is the rush of the ignorant to make something out of nothing in pursuit of their denier dogma.
Yes, but as Climatologist they should have known this was possible and actually looked at weather models like the GFS, Euro, UKMet or any of them and they'd know what the weather was really doing. This is Climatology/Meteorology 101.
And to think.. 1/3 to 1/2 (depending on the model) will have lows below zeros and highs barely in the single digits next week.
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