From the “You might want to check the weather forecast before you start out” department:
I’m sorry, but I just have to laugh at this one. There’s just too much hilarious irony. Our polar bear thinks its funny too.
From an article in the American Thinker, and a news report from ABC News
[Regarding] the collapse of the Bancroft-Arnesen polar expedition on Monday. The expedition was a stunt (a harsh word, I know, but the only one that’s appropriate) intended to dramatize the effect of warming on the Arctic. The two trekkers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, planned to walk 530 miles from Canada to the Pole, swimming across rifts in the ice created by warming. Well, the rifts turned out not to exist, and the project had to be called off after only a few miles when Arnesen was threatened with frostbite. It appears that warming has a way to go – outside temperatures were hitting a hundred below zero at night. Bancroft and Arnesen returned little the worse for wear. “One of things we see with global warming,” their expedition organizer Ann Atwood said by way of explanation, “is unpredictability.” Uhh… right.
[Bloggers note: I nor any other meteorologist can predict next weeks weather 100% accurately, so what makes them think they can predict 20-50 years ahead with utmost certainty?
Here's what they said at the outset: "Because global warming impacts the polar regions first and most dramatically, the changes in the Arctic are a lens into what the rest of the world may experience in the future, unless changes are made swiftly."]
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