UPDATE: see the latest excuse below.
The satellite tracking map has been like this for two days. Follow the yellow brick road for an about face and head to land.
WUWT reader “strawbale” reports in Tips and Notes that:
Listen to the Row to the Pole latest news on their website, they have spent today iced in and unable to move. Apparently the climbed up a hill to see how far the ice stretched and its goes to the horizon.
…spent today “licking their wounds” is how their audio report put it…
Hopefully when cloud cover conditions improve we’ll see just how far that ice extends on the NASA MODIS page: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/
UPDATE: The latest RTTP post from their website:
As the current path is blocked by more ice sheets, the crew use the downtime to put in some drill practice, moving the Old Pulteney up onto the ice.
UPDATE2: Well here’s the problem, they are still thinking like it is 2005! Too much listening to Dr. Mark “death spiral” Serreze of NSIDC, not enough time looking at observational data. From the RTTP Facebook page:
UPDATE3: they are on the move again, along the coast, trying to find an opening
Who is funding this row nonsense?
taxpayers again?
I’m sure the MSM will be reporting all this inconvenient ice any time soon. Or maybe not.
Ice free Arctic? Maybe next year. Maybe not.
(“Yo! Who’s that fellow wandering by over there? Is that… is that Pen Haddow? Maybe we can all get a lift back to town from Clarkson and Mays.”)
Poor dears. They had better mount a polar bear watch with all that ice about.
Good Lord, visibility must be bad. They appear to have rowed over a peninsular.
Models/Predictions….meet real world!
Its only August too! And they are not even going to the place they claim (well they are, but it moved to somewhere else in the intervening years).
This is why Top Gear is so popular – far more fun driving on the real hard white stuff than trying to row through imaginary open water. Just hope these guys are not so foolish as to put themselves in a position where they need rescue and so risk the lives of others, at great expense.
..how many dead polar bears have they seen………..
What can you do but look on in awe at such foolishness.
Also, two French guys set out to sail and drag their catamaran from Alaska to Svalbard (passing through the geographic Pole).
http://newsminer.com/bookmark/14475110-2-French-explorers-sailing-across-North-Pole-on-sea-ice-expedition
They had to give up after less than a month with battery failure and loads of cute poley bears circling. Their diary in French:
http://www.sebroubinet.eu/la-voie-du-pole_nouvelles.html
Ice? In the Arctic? At this time of the year? Whatever next! Someone will have to rethink this whole Global Warming thing if it doesn’t stop raining, and the temperatures stay below 20°C here in Europe!
The AGW mob need to hold a few more Beanfests to get the CO2 levels to rise faster …
I am pleased to note that not every reckless boondoggle promulgating false consciousness ends in tragedy.
I am sure they wish for some global warming!
Wassa matta? Skeered of a few (thousand) grinding growlers? Row on! Or is that outboard on?
This farce may well end in tragedy. Or vice versa.
I don’t blame them one jot (tot?) if I were up there freezing my doodaas off, I think I would look to the Old Pulteney for some “protection” & warmth. (Never tried it myself but I’m sure it will slip down a treat, hick!!! oops!!! doesn’t bither me a bot!! 🙂
Pmsl if I were them I’d give up if even gaia ?? is trying to stuff them !!
Friends:
It is tempting to think this escapade was pointless, but not so.
Now the intrepid ‘rowers to the pole’ are stranded on the ice thay are a potential food source to help survival of any polar bears in the vicinity, and we all know that polar bears need all the help they can get if they are to survive.
Richard
Since their route seems to be being rearranged, I thought it only decent to rearrange “Row to the pole”
So now after “Op. throe towel” they might need a “wet hop retool” to decide on the next move. My suggestion: “Tow-rope > Hotel”
Well, WUWT called this one when it started, and glad to see our predictions panned out… they can’t even make it to the OLD Magnetic NP, nevermind the current NP…
I am pleased to note that not all reckless boondoggles promulgating false consciousness end in tragedy.
I needed that!
Row, row, row your boat ….
Today is a no go as well, iced in again.
Instead today is spent practicing hiking over the ice with the canoe in tow.
When they end up dragging that boat over the ice, it should be mandatory that at least half the team stays on board and pretends to paddle.
As R Gates will say: “They should have tried sometime later this century.”
As for me, I say: “It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of clowns.”
You hear this a lot, I am sure:
Stupid is as stupid does. Forest Gump
Sorry for the double post…