Akademic Shokalskiy makes it back to port, #spiritofmawson ship of fools still stuck in Antarctica

“Maybe he’ll stay in Antarctica.” lol!

“The Antarctic 52” now join “The Arctic 30” in the history books!

Antarctica strikes back.

That’s some Polar Vortex Irony!

So Turney’s call for help was 1) a waste of money and other people’s time and 2) very disruptive of actual scientific research. I hope that Turney has good insurance because some folks are going to want compensation.

Leon0112 says: “So Turney’s call for help was 1) a waste of money and other people’s time and 2) very disruptive of actual scientific research. I hope that Turney has good insurance because some folks are going to want compensation.”
I don’t think Turkey had authority to “call for help.” The story according to Mikhail Voytenko is:
“They’ve been taken from Shokalskiy simply because they were already more of a nuisance staying on board of Shokalskiy, and eating away food supplies which are required for the crew remaining on board. Passengers were mostly scientists, or so they say, who were trying to get yet more proofs of devastating global warming effects. Well, if getting trapped in ice is a result of global warming, they definitely found what they’ve been after. ”
http://www.news.odin.tc/index.php?page=view/article/1105/Research-vessel-Shokalskiy-may-become-an-Antarctic-Flying-Dutchman
I don’t imagine the crew would want to spend any more time than necessary trapped on board with a bunch of self-anointed eco-messiahs who think the sun rises and sets around their keysters.

It’s a *** poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. –Andrew Jackson
I agree with Andy, but it’s still AntarCtica. Ref: title
: > )

So the good professor Turney’s family expedition to Antarctica is still in progress. They must be eating rations intended for real scientists, at the Casey Antarctic station crew!
He should have, for a change, listened to Anthony’s forecast, they would be much closer to home by now….

And here I was thinking that the Ship Of Fools escapade was done.

In the above pic of the Australis there is open water … on the sea ice page this area is covered with ice?

Who was rescued? The Russians from the parasitic ‘scientists’

Martin Hovland says:
January 13, 2014 at 12:26 pm

The Antarctic 52″ now join “The Arctic 30″ in the history books!

Don’t forget to add the 28gate participants.

Idiots. I hope they are thoroughly miserable.
They did inspire me to try making a banana and peanut butter milkshake though.
In fairness they are delicious.

What we see here is the real down to the earth analysis of Anthony, Coleman and the Weather Bell team versus the hysterical attitude of the Antarctic Exploration Team read climate alarmists.
Anthony, Coleman and the Weather Bell Team are right and the climate alarmists are WRONG.
Case closed.

The reason for the evacuation: Akademik Shokalskiy Spirit of Mawson Expedition: the food situation

I knew that when I saw that Akademic Shokalskiy made it back to port and the “rescued” scientists where still out to sea that It was a great story. It is the kind of story that newspaper men like H.L. Mencken would have told so very well once upon a time before the media in the USA became sycophantic government-worshiping drones.
I hope some very good member of the alternate media will take a crack at telling the whole tale in 2500 words or less. I’ll give it a shot myself someday when all the facts are in for the entertainment of the few score who will read it.
The biggest trouble we have in the skeptical camp is not that we need to marshal better arguments, come up with more telling data, or make our ideas more understandable. Our biggest problem is that the fellows who “buy ink by the gallon” are all telling the “CO2 will destroy humanity” myth day in and day out.
Breaking on through to the other side is going to be hard. (apologies to the Doors on that one)

Very funny to hear the ship they were rescued from (by those evil biggest CO2 polluters the Chinese) is now home while the rescued are still stuck in the Antarctic. And – according to the interview – they are not allowed off ship at Casey – so more cabin fever than they had when stuck! Could it get any worse for them? Plenty of time for reflection I trust.

“One thing is becoming abundantly clear, the Spirit of Mawson expedition and Chris Turney appear to be less than honest in answering questions about their expedition. This is now proven categorically by the Depart of Conservations official reply to legal queries under New Zealand’s Official Information Act.”
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2014/01/chris-turney-lied-support-institutions/
Oh dear

By a consensus of captains, they cherry picked the wrong ship in order to hide the decline in the credibility of their passengers. Now it will be harder for them to redefine the peer review process and produce a hockey stick.
Still the BBC will report “this groundbreaking scientific expedition has proved climate change is worse than we thought”. The Guardian will report “this groundbreaking exhibition has proved climate change is verse than we thought”.

heh
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/9607412/Akademik-Shokalskiy-arrives-in-Bluff

P Gosselin says:
January 13, 2014 at 12:17 pm
“Maybe he’ll stay in Antarctica.” lol!

Exactly!
What’s cheaper?—providing a ride out of Casey Station for the “ship of fools”, or re-supplying Casey Station for a year to feed the same bunch?
Not that we’d want them to become permanent residents of Antarctica or anything…
Although….
I’d donate $10 for re-supply.
🙂

“Once the leak test was complete pumping of SAB (Special Antarctic Blend) began … and we will have delivered over 850,000 litres of fuel during resupply ….”
Surely that would be a death hose, responsible for the extermination of hundreds of species?
Self-respecting environmental activists would do everything in their power to protest and disrupt operations. Or maybe not.
It would just prolong the agony. Better to let it pass this time, and get home sooner … can then get back to harping-on and putting the world to rights in the comfort of the faculty common room sofa.
/sarc off

If Casey doesn’t have a Centrelink office, they should be dropped at the closest available – it’s all these clowns are good for.

Headline should read – “Akademic Shokalsky free from loony ‘scientists and propagandists, makes it back to port, crew receiving counselling, message on deck reads ‘green w&@k£&s’.”

Don’t know if this is mentioned yet:
@RichardTol:
Has Chris Turney lied about his support by institutions?:
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2014/01/chris-turney-lied-support-institutions
The first of these listed government supporters is questioned: Department of Conservation, Landcare Research, and the University of Waikato.

Since Dr. Christmas Turkey chose to try and enter Antarctica during it’s summer melt maybe he didn’t notice what is going on. Yet he is supposed to be a Calamatologist!

sunshine hours – January 11, 2014
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Is So High It May Set A Record For Highest Minimum of All time
http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-is-so-high-it-may-set-a-record-for-highest-minimum-of-all-time/

We must act now! It’s all for the grand kiddies. Where is Monseigneur ‘Death Trains’ Hansen when you need him?

This is more entertaining than an episode of Gilligan’s Island. They can’t get off the ship at Casey because their carbon footsies are too big to fit through the doorways.

I call for another immediate evacuation. Are there any submarines or small dinghys nearby?
Jimbo says:
January 13, 2014 at 3:24 pm
The AP also says the AS is an ice breaker. Does Tur[k]ey also write for the wire?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chinese-ship-breaks-free-ice-antarctica-21446301

What Mawson went through was his skin fluffing off and other un-mentionables.
What Mr. Turkey et al went through was worrying about yogurt, milk-shakes, cafe latte, delays and cuddling penguins. THEY DON’T MAKE THEM LIKE THEY USED TO.
Warning: Never, ever believe a word these people tell you because they have invested their money hard. Look at Mr. Turkey. LOOK!

Just a technical question: how can a ship located in Antarctica be traveling “east-south-east”?
Aren’t all directions either “south” or “north”? What is the base reference point?

There’s always something new and interesting in Climate Science;
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The Circumpolar Vortex in the north is counter-balanced by the Circum-Shokalskiy Vortex in the south!

Al Gore should be held liable for all rescue costs related to saving his starry-eyed followers. He should also be required to wear a sign that says: “It’s the Sun, stupid!” With the so-called “Arctic Vortex” freezing the Northern regions and the Arctic summer freezing icebreakers in place in the Southern regions, just where is this global warming when you need it??

and having a weather forecast provided that said all they had to do was wait….
..they are climate scientists…they know better than to believe a weather forecast
/snark

hilarious:
13 Jan: UK Telegraph Blog: Sean Thomas: What if man-made climate change is all in the mind?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100254179/what-if-man-made-climate-change-is-all-in-the-mind/

Let us be respectful regarding the plight of the crew of the Aurora Australis and remember that they are carrying some very valuable and critical cargo … as well as that sorry lot led by Professor Turkey. I wonder what kind of rations are available on board for unplanned passengers.

Perhaps the original distress call was misconstrued, and the pack the captain reported to be threatened by was not of ice but of Greenies. How clever of him to transport them to another vessel where they will be “no Tribble at all!”

couldn’t resist…a dramatic view of the mess of the AA

MattS says:
January 13, 2014 at 12:28 pm
“tourists were evacuated by helicopter to the Aurora Australis”
You are putting the wrong spin on things.
What really happened is that the crew of the Akademic Shokalskiy was rescued from the tourists by removing the tourists from the Akademic Shokalskiy.
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Sums it up perfectly.

Walter Clemens says:
January 13, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Just a technical question: how can a ship located in Antarctica be traveling “east-south-east”?
Aren’t all directions either “south” or “north”? What is the base reference point?
I answered this yesterday:
For directions in Antarctica the Prime Meridian is north. It is the line of longitude that separates east and west Antarctica.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/antarctica/
The winds are taken in a system called grid north where 0 degrees is north and 180 degrees is south.
http://www.usap.gov/travelAndDeployment/documents/FieldManual-Chapt21AntarcticNavigation.pdf

I wait for a journalist, to interview those presstitutes from the ship of fools.
“Why were you on board, sonny?
You did no reporting, so what was your function? Times 5.

“The biggest trouble we have in the skeptical camp is not that we need to marshal better arguments, come up with more telling data, or make our ideas more understandable. Our biggest problem is that the fellows who “buy ink by the gallon” are all telling the “CO2 will destroy humanity” myth day in and day out.”
A slightly smaller problem is that some of the noisier members of the sceptical camp seem to be wild-eyed, foam-flecked, right-wing loonies, who cannot refrain from inserting their political ideology into the debate. Reasonable, moderate people find their politics repellent, and associate those politics with the sceptical camp as a whole.

Great humor in this thread! I hope that the following is not too over-the-top.
Q: What do you get when you cross a Penguin with a Turkey?
A: A mentally retarded Penguin.

Anthony might like to take on this newpaper reporter.
“I doubt that the polemical world occupied by Bolt and Watt has much room for such things.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/bolt-and-companys-claims-cut-no-ice/story-fnjj6013-1226801026797