Gee, let’s not talk to the other people who think maybe, just maybe, this was a bad idea gone even badder? I had to laugh when I saw this on their Facebook page. It reminds me of the days of denial put forth bv that other collection of clowns arctic explorers that were caught out faking biotelemetry readings.
Uh oh, Brits only now. Everybody else is to be excluded. I think that soon, comments to team members on their website and Facebook page might become unmanageable. Obviously, they don’t realize they are on the world wide web.
For those of you just joining us, recall that “Row to the Pole” is in name only, they aren’t actually going to reach the magnetic north pole of today, nor the geographic north pole. And, at the rate they are going, they likely won’t make the magnetic pole of 1996 either.
But hey, it’s a publicity stunt to promote this Scotch Whisky few have heard of, so don’t expect too much.
By the way, has anyone noticed that not once has the team posted any updates on the “the science” they are supposed to be doing on this stunt trip?
The whole thing is sheer poetry.
Row, row, row, your boat, fake it to the pole
Merrily merrilly merrily merrily, ice is but a dream
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It seemed like a good public stunt at the time. Oh, well. We had a real adventure, saw some cool stuff and several times got hammered on free Scotch.
So what’s all this about our trip being a failure? With failures like this are built whole careers, if sometimes obituaries also.
P.S. please send more bear spray. Turns out the polar bears didn’t drown after all.
This whole thing is deliciously representative of the whole AGW movement. Talk about the Emperor’s new clothes. Speaking of which, that guy in the photo, wearing shorts, freezing his knackers off – he probably actually believes he has suitable clothes on. That really sums these idiots up perfectly.
Oh how precious! They cannot handle comments that suggest their “project” is a farce. Thank Gore for FaceBook and Google Maps, we would otherwise be told by the “Operations Team” that the “project” was a complete success. Just think of all that planet killing CO2 at ~40,000ppm/v being exhaled by all involved.
“Merrily merrilly merrily merrily, ice is but a dream”
HOWEVER, the ice is all too real, methinks they will find.
Anthony,
Best not to be so disparaging about an expedition that perhaps has been infiltrated by warmistas. And careful about the Brits, plenty of us browse these pages.
Row To The Pole Facebook page has certainly been infested by Artic ice free imaginaries but this should not deflect from what is a noble, genuine and very British thing (ultimately stupid as most British attempts are) – an artic expedition. Sponsored, not by a largely unknown single malt Scotch Whisky, but, as Old Pulteney is,, a well known and pretty good dram.
Fair do’s here. The guys on the boat are obviously honest Joe’s working hard to try to achieve a milestone in their lives. Shame that they are possibly unaware or complicit in the propaganda that surrounds their effort. And shame on those who are pinning such politics on these efforts remotely.
“Lets make this an ever so British forum, lets be polite.”
Following the examples provided, it therefore must be “ever so British” to leave out the apostrophe from the contraction of “let us”. The “Blackberry excuse” doesn’t count, they clearly used an apostrophe-s for a possessive form above that line so they can use that character just fine when they want to.
And the spelling is “skeptic” with a k like we Yanks have been doing, not with a c. All you “British” UK’ers using the “c” have obviously not been using proper British spelling while trying to make us think otherwise. Shame on you!
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Yeah, I don’t think “Lets make this an ever so British forum, lets be polite.” means Brits only. Its an appeal to maintain an archetypically polite demeanor. Too bad these chaps have been out of touch and aren’t up to date with the new British archetype, the riot.
Let’s be polite? Gwyneth Paltrow comments on uncivilized Americans: click click click click☺
AleaJactaEst says:
August 12, 2011 at 7:20 pm
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Right. It wasn’t for flippant reasons that the Pen Hadow crew were referred to as the “Three Stooges”.
“Uh oh, Brits only now. Everybody else is to be excluded. ”
You misunderstand. They actually mean that things should be kept polite “in a British manner”, not that non-British people shouldn’t comment.
I still think it’s a stupid thing to say and I’m British. The whole jaunt is an embarrassment.
So how is anyone meant to tell them, in an oh so nice and polite British way, that “you are making fools of youselves, chaps”?
Don’t these guys read science papers? We already know the Arctic was ice free in the summers during the early Holocene so is there really any reason to row a boat in the Arctic to try to show that ice melts in the summer?
How about they do something original like circumnavigate the globe in their row boat while intoxicated? Now that would be interesting and worth paying attention to.
That chap in the photo can’t be British, he isn’t wearing socks.
Incidentally, Ms Paltrow is entitled to be rude about Americans, she is one.
I am still wondering if they may not have sampled too much of the promoters wares when they were planning this trip!!!!
Fear not!
There is a new Facebook page – Row to Himmelbjerg – which also covers a really important scientific expedition. Feel free to befriend. Unfriendly comments welcome!
Ever so British? Yikes! They have a secret plan to ransack every shop on sight!
“Row, row, row, your boat, fake it to the pole”
If we all were back at home we’d all be on the dole…
I’ve been socializing with a couple of Brits for the last few years and am not sure I can speak the Queen’s English anymore. Does not help to frequent the Bishop’s blog either.
Now I am wondering what a knacker is and just where I can buy some Scotch that makes you want to row to the North Pole.
Heide de Klein:
We need you to make an, ever so polite, comment … … …
QUICKLY!!!!!
Row, row, row your boat, 90 North or so it seems,
ha, ha, fooled you, I’m a submarine.
unfortunately we have a strong taste for mock-heroic antics, here in the UK. The bathos seems to be in the blood. (Bathos-so pathetic that its funny)
Largely unknown!!! How dare you sir! This whisky is splendid stuff and well known here in Britland
However, only buffoons mix decent malt and ice. A splash of mineral water at room temperature is all that’s needed – and polar bears are not required at all… 😉
“Gwyneth Paltrow comments on uncivilized Americans”
Cut her some slack; after all, she is a Merkin… 😉
I admire these guys. They signed up for an adventure with some real risk and they are blogging about it on a daily basis, failure or success for all to see. It’s easy for me to find fault with them as I sit in my living room, if I had any guts I would be out there with them.
I think they’re upset that we’re snowing on their parade.