Why are we allowing these eco idiots to abandon their ship?

[carbonhed]

What happens to all the fuel oil and toxic chemicals when the ice finally sinks it? In this pristine environment?



This is a bunch of climate hysterics looking for proof of Globull Warming only to be trapped by record levels of irony and stupidity. Maybe somebody should have shown them this graph of Antarctic sea ice extent and they could have saved us all the trouble of rescuing their dumb arses... and been safe back home at the BBC and Guardian?



Meanwile the lefty media tries to reinvent these buffoons as "tourists".

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a...just_tourists/

[mashman]

... taking ice-breakers, that smash chunks of ice off of the main ice-sheet, to measure how much ice has been lost from the ice-sheet. Priceless.

I know. Let's pretend that climate change is real and react accordingly.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Let's burn fossil fuels trying to prove us using fossil fuel is fucking the world.

[Robbo]

Serves the Bastards right.

[carbonhed]

Apparently this is an Australian funded Global Warming wankfest complete with BBC camera crews and Guardian journalists that has come hilariously unstuck... err stuck.... no footage will ever be allowed to hit the airwaves.

From http://joannenova.com.au/

"Why is there nothing on this story on the ABC News homepage?

Because yet again the ABC are playing fast and furious with the truth.

The original story about the research ship getting stuck in the ice was belatedly posted in the “justin” section early Saturday morning (Saturday 27/12/2013 7.04am), when it became obvious the story couldn’t be hidden any longer. I say “belatedly”, because there is a BBC film crew on board. Plus there are reporters from the Guardian. So the whole drama could be being covered live.

Since then, rather than post each new development as a “new” story – such as the failure of the Chinese icebreaker to reach them – the ABC has simply gone back and amended the original story, which now lies about two thirds of the way down the second page of the “justin” section.

However, don’t bother going there if you want to find out any of the real facts. Just some of the things that remain unreported are:

* This is the largest and most expensive Antarctic expedition ever mounted by Australia.
* It is being funded almost entirely by the Australian Taxpayer, as is the rescue operation.
* It’s not about “tourists”. There is the ship’s crew, the BBC documentary crew, the Guardian Reporters, a bunch of mad climate scientists, and a whole heap teachers and PhD students who actually paid for passage so they could be unpaid “research assistants” to the mad scientists.
* By the time this little “Climate Change PR fiasco” is over, the cost to the Australian Taxpayers will run into several millions of dollars.

It is interesting to note that the alleged purpose of this little taxpayer-funded White Christmas jaunt was to study the effects of climate change since Mawson was there, 1911 to 1914. Well, when Mawson was there, he was able to get his wooden sailing ship to within 50 yards of the shore. He couldn’t get closer, not because of ice, but because the water was too shallow. Conversely, the purpose-built, steel construction, ice-strengthened research vessel is currently stuck 60 kilometres out to sea, which is as close as they could get to Mawson’s landing spot, on account of all the sea-ice.

Still, despite the total farce of the situation, not to mention the enormous waste of funds and effort, you have to laugh. Here we have a full, professional BBC documentary film crew, PLUS reporters from the Guardian and Fairfax, caught in the middle of what would, in any other circumstances, be a Pulitzer Prize, Walkley Award winning real-life drama, and because of the politics of climate change, they can’t report it and it’s unlikely that a single second of footage will ever be seen by a member of the general public.

Can you imagine the coverage if instead of being stuck in ice that isn’t supposed to be there, they were all in a small Victorian country town surrounded by bushfires?"

Another telling graph :-

[Ocean1]

There is the ship’s crew, the BBC documentary crew, the Guardian Reporters, a bunch of mad climate scientists, and a whole heap teachers and PhD students who actually paid for passage so they could be unpaid “research assistants” to the mad scientists.

Perfect B ark material, in fact...

[bogan]

That's fucking hilarious, especially the bit about not making it as far as the 1914 expedition due to too much ice

[caspernz]

That's fucking hilarious, especially the bit about not making it as far as the 1914 expedition due to too much ice

Interesting reading...alert Wikileaks!!

[oneofsix]

Wait for the press release the says the ice is thickening in a few areas but generally reducing and that the ice is 'new' ice rather than permanent ice and in itself somehow evidence that the climate is warming.

[carbonhed]

Further to this comedy of errors. The Russki ship has rung up US weather forecasters to tell them when a wind shift might get them out of the shit they're in... and got put through to Anthony Watts, arch sceptic and head honcho of Wattsupwiththat. He's only too happy to help

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/3...y/#more-100200

[avgas]

Like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.

Have you ever spooned a man to death?

[Ocean1]

So, the heavy ice is all part of global war... Ah, climate change. It's an extreme weather event, see? like we said was to be expected from anthropomorphic glo... climate change all along.

"While scientists expect and observe more extreme weather with man-made global warming, some say it's not quite fair to blame the Antarctic blizzard that trapped the ship on climate change.

University of Colorado ice scientist Waleed Abdalati, NASA's former chief scientist, cautioned, like many scientists do, that while researchers can spot a trend in extreme weather, they can't immediately associate an individual event -like a blizzard - with changing climate.

When scientists do attribute an individual extreme weather event to climate change, it is usually more than a year later after numerous computer model simulations and then published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Also, Antarctica, which is more governed by localized wind circulation and other characteristics, "is kind of its own beast," Abdalati said. "Antarctica feels the changing climate a little differently than the rest of the world. I myself can't point to the weather and say 'it's part of a changing climate."

[HenryDorsetCase]

I thnk the Chinese overlords have rescued the passengers but the crew are staying put. I suspect that the crew will be breathing a sigh of relief, bringing the hookers out of hiding, cranking up the stereo, chucking some fishing lines over the side (or depth charges) and starting the party. Who wants a toothfish burger and shot of vodka?

[Jantar]

The chinese ship is also staying put as it is also jammed in by ice. Now the australian icebreaker is also in difficulty and barely making 1/4 knot. Its web cams show solid ice all around it. If it doesn't escape before the katabatic winds start up then it may also have to be rescued.

What idiots would plan a sea mission into an area with record ice and expect to find a clear ocean?

[Ocean1]

What idiots would plan a sea mission into an area with record ice and expect to find a clear ocean?

... Wait, it's a trap, innit?