Antarctic expedition scientists trapped in ice

Thank goodness for them it's summertime in the Antarctic.

A team of scientists and members of the public who have been retracing the footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911 have become trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica.

Passengers aboard the ship, the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, were informed on Christmas morning that the captain had issued a distress call to the Maritime Service Authority based in Falmouth in the UK earlier in the day. Three nearby icebreaker ships have been notified of the Shokalskiy's situation and are on their way to help.

"Everyone is well on board and morale is high. We've had a fantastic Christmas and the science programme has been continuing while we're stuck in position."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/d ... rapped-ice

Of course the Guardian fails to mention what their "science programme" is all about. Oh goodness, they are climate scientists!!!

Chris Turney, an Australian professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, said the ship was surrounded by ice up to nearly 10 feet (3 meters) thick.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/30/world ... hip-stuck/

And who is Chris Turney?

I am an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Climate Change at the University of University of New South Wales where my team and I are focussing our efforts on using the past to better understand the changes we are seeing today. To do something positive about climate change, I helped 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.

http://www.christurney.com/

No conflict of interests there.

How was that ice thing working out for Al Gore last year?

Branson and Gore send messages from Antarctica trip

13 February 2012

Former Vice President Al Gore has taken his fight against climate change to the South Pole, as his Climate Reality Project expedition ship arrived in Antarctica.

And amongst pictures of penguins, icebergs and seals she lamented their future prospects: “Greetings from a chinstrap penguin colony. Populations decreasing due to decreasing sea ice.”

http://www.rtcc.org/2012/02/02/messages ... 3EwhT.dpuf

Well... here's how that ice is looking.

Antarctic Sea Ice is more than 2 standard deviations above normal:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/s_timeseries1.png?w=640&h=512

And how does that look from the sky?

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/commonwealth-bay-region-of-antarctica-ship_trapped.png?w=640&h=645

When reality and fantasy collide.

I think the Drudge headline was:

"Global warming scientists trapped in Ice" LOL

:rofllol

Is that what happens when you believe in your own propaganda?
Probably brought swim suits because they trusted Al Gore's hockey stick.

FredHayek wrote: Is that what happens when you believe in your own propaganda?
Probably brought swim suits because they trusted Al Gore's hockey stick.

Al Gore didn't create the hockey stick model.

LOL wrote: I think the Drudge headline was:

"Global warming scientists trapped in Ice" LOL

:rofllol

Their faith in CAGW will set them free!!!

I wonder if they have any Freon on board. They could empty out a couple of those 20 pound containers on the ice around the ship and wait for the hole in the ozone to open up over the ship and melt them out.

Walter !
Read your own links, but thanks for posting a link

team of scientists and members of the public who have been retracing the footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911 have become trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica.

I believe they are compiling/comparing data from the 1911 expedition

Walter L Newton wrote: Thank goodness for them it's summertime in the Antarctic.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I already saw this story on my Yahoo, Google and MSN home Pages, and on Good morning America, channel 4, 7 and 9 News today...

You're a regular Walter Winchell with the important breaking news there, Scoops

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Blondie wrote: Walter !
Read your own links, but thanks for posting a link

team of scientists and members of the public who have been retracing the footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911 have become trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica.

I believe they are compiling/comparing data from the 1911 expedition

You read the links. They are doing climate change experiments.

18 Dec: Guardian: The Guardian lays claim to Antarctica – in pictures Journalists Alok Jha and Laurence Topham have landed in Antarctica with the 2013 Australasian Antarctic Expedition Documentary filmmaker Laurence Topham lines up a shot from the bows. Photograph: Alok Jha/Guardian…
http://www.theguardian.com/science/anta ... a-pictures

Guardian: Laurence Topham, documentary filmmaker
In 2007 he worked for Current TV, where he edited over 50 short-form documentaries for terrestrial broadcast…
http://www.theguardian.com/open-weekend/laurence-topham

Guardian: Science: Antarctica live (MASSIVE COVERAGE, NO HINT ABOUT THE SHIP’S CURRENT PREDICAMENT!)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/antarctica-live

26 Dec: BBC: Andrew Luck-Baker: Science continues for trapped Australasian Antarctic expedition Science reporter Andrew Luck-Baker is on board the Russian research vessel Shokalskiy, covering the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013 for the BBC World Service programme Discovery…
Tantalisingly, a low band of grey sky to the Northeast suggests clear water lies not so many kilometres away. The grey colour is light reflected from open water. The early Antarctic explorers named this colour phenomenon “water sky” and used it to navigate their route through the treacherous pack ice…
In addition to the Russian crew of 22, the expedition team consists of 18 professional scientists from Australia and New Zealand, and 22 volunteer science assistants. They are members of the public, ranging in age from their 20s to their 70s. They paid to join the scientific adventure…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25519059

25 Nov: ABC Lateline: $1.5 million Australian expedition to Antarctica Professor Chris Turney from the University of NSW is mounting the largest Australian science expeditions to the Antarctic with an 85-person team to try to answer questions about how climate change in the frozen continent might be already shifting weather patterns in Australia.
ABC’s MARGOT O’NEILL: The research stakes are high. Antarctica is one of the great engines driving the world’s oceans, winds and weather, especially in Australia. But there’s ominous signs of climate change.
CHRIS TURNEY: The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds encircle Antarctica, and over the last 20 or 30 years or so, they’ve been pushing further south. Now – so actually in a way it’s almost like Antarctica’s withdrawing itself from the rest of the world…
EMMA ALBERICI: And tomorrow night, in the second part of this special report, could the British Antarctic explorer Robert Scott have lived? We look at how Professor Turney discovered that choosing the right team can be a matter of life and death.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/ ... 898858.htm

Ya have to spoon feed people.

Blondie wrote: Walter !
Read your own links, but thanks for posting a link

team of scientists and members of the public who have been retracing the footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911 have become trapped in heavy ice a few miles from the coast of Antarctica.

I believe they are compiling/comparing data from the 1911 expedition

And I already gave this link in my original comment...

The expedition to gauge the effects of climate change on the region began on November 27. The second and current leg of the trip started on December 8 and was scheduled to conclude with a return to New Zealand on January 4.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/30/world ... hip-stuck/

Geeeeesssshhhhhhh.