Antarctic expedition scientists trapped in ice

Martha... AGW scientist... there goes the neighborhood!!!

All these diesel engines to power the ships and other rescue vehicles must be generating a lot of CO2?

Maybe the folks working at McMurdo station could whip up a couple of 100 gallon batches of navy beans and ham hocks then deliver it to the ship. A couple of days of chowing on beans and hocks would generate plenty of methane and other greenhouse gases. If nothing else happened maybe the crew would bail out and walk to the edge of the ice because of the smell.

Global warming believers using massive amounts of fuel and releasing tons of carbon into the atmosphere to prove global warming? Wouldn't it have been better for the environment to just stay home, turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater?

otisptoadwater wrote: Maybe the folks working at McMurdo station could whip up a couple of 100 gallon batches of navy beans and ham hocks then deliver it to the ship. A couple of days of chowing on beans and hocks would generate plenty of methane and other greenhouse gases. If nothing else happened maybe the crew would bail out and walk to the edge of the ice because of the smell.

Seriously-This sounds like something a child would come up with. Do you havbe NO SENSE OF HUMOUR? I can hardly believe it

How many ships are now iced in?

Just the one ship Arlen. Looks like the non-essential personnel will be leaving via helicopter:

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"Antarctic ice trapped a ship full of scientists on a climate change expedition. Yet, 96 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers ignored climate change entirely. The ship has been stuck since Christmas morning.

The broadcast networks mostly ignored the reason the Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was on its way to Antarctica. Twenty-five out of 26 stories (96 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.

In fact, rather than point out the mission of the scientists to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” with no mention of climate change or global warming. Chris Turney, the expedition’s leader, is a professor of climate change at the University of South Wales. According to Turney’s personal website, the purpose of the expedition is to “discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

So far, three rescue attempts have been thwarted by growing levels of sea ice and weather conditions. The passengers are now expected to be airlifted by helicopter, according to The Associated Press. ABC’s “Good Morning America” reported Dec. 30, that “the ice could be as thick as 13 feet.”

According to Fox News, Turney admitted “we’re stuck in our own experiment.” They reported on Dec. 30, that a statement from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said, “Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up.”...



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Things that make me smile.

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 01, 2014 (10:36am)

The SMH reports:
Temperatures are on course to rise at least 4 degrees by the end of the century, according to research that finds earlier climate models projecting smaller increases are likely to be wrong.

The research, by a team led by the University of NSW, says a 4-degree rise in temperature would be potentially catastrophic for agriculture in warm regions of the world, including Australia.
The team from the University of NSW were unavailable for further comment because they are stuck in millions of tonnes of ice.

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