From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like nothing but a publicity stunt, especially since the sea ice trend in Antarctica is up in the last 30 years:
I predict what will come of it will be much like this joke of a new report by Scott Pelley of CBS News who went to Antarctica at the peak of the southern summer to capture images of melting ice. Here’s the transcript. Antarctic summer is opposite that of the northern hemisphere and runs roughly from October through February.
Gore, Hansen, and Trenberth and more than 100 fellow travelers will depart from Argentina late next week and arrive in late summer in Antarctica, just in time to witness melting ice, put it on video, wail about the tragedy, and ask for money to combat climate change. Basically, they are going to lie with seasonal visual aids..
Scientists, celebrities to cruise with Gore to Antarctica
Lauren Morello, E&E reporter
E&E News
“This winter we will be talking about Antarctica as part of our ‘Living on Thin Ice’ campaign which will focus on how people around the globe are being impacted by the melting of the world’s ice,” Climate Reality Project spokesman Eric Young said. “As part of that effort, we are journeying to Antarctica with our chairman, Vice President Gore, and leading scientists and thinkers to see firsthand how the climate crisis is unfolding.”
Antarctica is not the only stop for Gore’s campaign, Young said, which has convened events in Ecuador, the Sierra Nevada and Brooklyn and is planning trips to Nepal and the Alps.
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You guys are quick!
You think they might jet pool to Argentina?
Get ready for another Climate FAIL and the Al Gore effect.
Who is paying for this? What kind of carbon footprint will they be leaving behind…. Oh an yes we can but hope the weather turns dastardly cold……… pleaseeeeeeeeee
Waitaminnit… A boat trip organized by Gore… taking Hansen and Trenberth… to view declining Antarctic ice… and to celebrate the Scott expedition (-blink- well, maybe they’ll emulate that little adventure completely).. with stops in Nepal and the Alps (by boat?)…
A quick look (which is about all I can stand) at Gore’s blog doesn’t seem to mention this. Are you sure this isn’t satire?
Gore effect + Antarctica = Climate Disaster
Maybe they’ll end up at this antarctic base which would fit well their their co2 doomsday rapture thing:
[;)]
Would it be wrong to suggest that Francesco Schettino captains the vessel?
Poetic Justice envisages the Gore Effect bringing a record-cold storm that strands their hapless ship for all of 2012, after which a slender but frostbitten crew are rescued by a nuclear icebreaker, their harrowing ordeal causing them to recant the error of the Warmista ways.
I assume they’ll also be there to observe the decline in penguins (supposed) and of course all of those poor great whites going hungry…
Are people really not aware enough to know when it’s winter up here it’s summer down there? Please tell me that people won’t fall for it. Please.
Is this one of those times where we wish the Al Gore effect makes this a one way trip?
Ok, I am not really serious on that (it was supposed to be a really bad joke…)
But really, knowing Al Gore’s luck with his own effect…it really must be possible?
“Lew Skannen says:
January 22, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Would it be wrong to suggest that Francesco Schettino captains the vessel?”
Yeah considering.
There’s already been that rescue for the Russian Fishing boat being trapped in the ice down there.
Then there was also another rescue for a Korean Fishing boat that also caught fire aswell.
So the odds are looking fairly healthy for a Gore Effect Antarctic shipwreck!
You just know they will report that by not sighting any Polar bears,
it will be more proof of global warming.
🙂
Reporter Lauren Morello must be rather young. She’s obviously on the same ideological side as Gore and Hansen, but doesn’t realize how beautifully appropriate her phrase “fellow traveler” is!
This actually makes me laugh. It is becoming apparent that to be a Vice President of the US, you have to be a caricature of some type: imbecile (Quayle), imbecilic zealot (Gore), warmongering demon (Cheney), bumbling dolt (Biden). Now, I don’t believe that Quayle was that stupid, Cheney was sent from the underworld, or that Biden is that much of a dolt (bumbling a bit, yes). But Gore just continues to come through with actions that back up his caricature. It’s like watching Jim Baker (preacher) spiral into PR oblivion.
Are Hansen and Trenberth using vacation time to take this trip? Are they paying for the value of the trip?
I think I know just the captain for a cruise such as this, he’s a bit of a celebrity and is recently unemployed! But unlike his esteemed passengers he abandons a sinking ship.
The SS Global Warming sailed serenely on. I sense a James Cameron movie coming.
Seriously though, this must be the first time in history that rats have been observed jumping ONTO a sinking ship…
…and global warming has already wiped-out the penguins at the North pole.
“We’re going on a boat organised by Al Gore”
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It’s summertime down there, so maybe they won’t need to travel in a Russian or Chinese icebreaker, however apropos for comrade Gore.
It’s a cinch they won’t make the trip on the Oden, which you may remember was recalled by the Swedish government due to the large increase in sea ice affecting northern navigation.
LOL
Gore, Hansen and Trenberth: Ladies and gentlemen, your Washington Generals starting lineup
“We’re going on a boat organised by Al Gore to learn as much as we can from scientists and experts about where we are in the worrying cycle of Global Warming.”
Unexpected candor from the profiteers of doom, admitting that they are tracking the cycle of worry that they have whipped up with their “global warming” meme.
I can save you the carbon spewing trip to penguin land, Branson. Here is where we sit in the in the “global warming” worrying cycle:
From the peak of the “global warming” worry, which occurred in about 2007-2008, the worry has been trending strongly downward. Issue fatigue kicked off the fall, which was rapidly accelerated by the recognition that “Hope and Change” was more about the preying on the former than the providing the latter, along with a series of unfortunate extreme cold weather events coincident with a number of “global warming” PR confabs. Then came Climategate and frozen Cancun, and worry dove even faster.
Cyclically, the worry got a minor bump up around the summer of 2010, but that year ended with blizzards in Europe, Snowzillain in NY and a white Christmas in Atlanta. Since then, there have been many promises that global temperatures and economies would be trending up, but both are flat to declining. That puts worry over “global warming” off the bottom of the chart. People have real problems to worry about now. They cant afford to worry about imaginary problems, and they understand that the draconian energy and tax policies you guys are pushing as solutions to that imaginary problem will only make their real problems worse.
So don’t figure on the worrying cycle of “global warming” heading back up anytime soon. It is on the same trajectory as global temperatures, and both are sitting at their lowest point in more than decade.
Too funny. I sent the link to a global warming, ice cap melting friend to follow.
Frankly, he’s too smart for this. ….Lady in Red
Mock all you like, but when that boat is stranded and crushed, Al Gore will prove himself another Shackleton.
Bwahahahahaaaaaa!