You really can’t make this stuff up. The guy actually uses an SUV to advertise this climate stunt. See the photo below.
The Guardian reported in 2003:
“We want the SUV to epitomise greed, waste and global climate change. We feel that if we galvanise a movement and keep a discussion going, if we make it uncool to drive SUVs then we are doing our part in the fight.”
Today, WUWT reader Phil Westerman writes:
You featured a blog story regarding Alex Bellini who is, apparently, going
to live on a melting iceberg. I live in Thame (near Oxford) in England and
have seen the 4 x 4 vehicle in the attached photograph parked or being used
in the town over the last couple of months.
Yes, yes we did: Climate craziness of the week: Man to live on melting iceberg for one year to highlight climate change
And in that post, I mentioned that making fake CGI icebergs (like the one in the Treehugger article photo above) to promote his cause wasn’t a good way to get it started. Neither is driving an SUV advertising your ‘concern’ about climate change.
Bellini, on his personal website describes himself as (bold his):
“Alex Bellini is an adventurer, professional speaker, mental coach and an award-winning book author.“
Well, with this stunt, you could also label him as a “performance artist”. I say that, because surely there’s no science involved here (he hasn’t even thought through what he’ll do it the iceberg rolls over, as they often do), and artists tend to “feel” rather than think, which is why he probably hasn’t realized how stupid he looks driving a fossil fueled SUV to promote his climate change stunt.
A picture is worth 1000 days on an iceberg, me thinks:
I’m pretty sure that’s Alex Bellini picking his nose in the driver’s seat (click to enlarge) since according to his Facebook page, his location is indeed in Thame, UK where Phil Westerman snapped this photo.
He even poses with it:
![Alex-Bellini-iceberg2[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/alex-bellini-iceberg21.jpg?quality=83)
Source: Motherboard
Here is how I see it.
I’ll be concerned about climate change when the people who are claiming they are more concerned than me start acting like it.
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My irony meter just blew up.
It’s hypocracy, not irony.
Is “hypocracy” related somehow to the hypocratic oath?
hypocrisy
hypocracy – noun The political beliefs of the party that scam artists are members of?
Actually it is Hypercrazy
: )
Here’s Mr. Bellini crossing the Pacific alone in a bathtub or something…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjF21_ZJdz0
Climate-Illusionist has become a profession.
It has been a profession for a long while. The first and main illusion has always been to delay public acknowledgment of the breed….
Climate Illusionist!
It’s perfect. Or possibly Climate delusionist. A good label to use when they use the “denier” label.
My first thought was whether the CAGW fraudster journo’s and academics were all ashamed or amused by this man.
But, after seeing his signed up 4WD and the requisite beard i concluded he was already well entrenched in the fraudsters camp. Now if he is endangered during this ridiculous stunt, who pays to rescue this mug lair?
He’ll probably spend a year on his fake iceberg, making a rescue just as impossible.
Just another adventurer feigning a concern in order to get a free thrill seeking trip!
Hey, I would chip in a 10 spot to put him on a Iceburg.
Only if he had to stay there the whole year , no rescue
To me it is a lot like people raising money for something or another so they can go on a safari or climb some mountain, all for the “cause” (theirs!)!
needs the suv to haul his ego and hoped for proceeds from his crimes around.
At what Latitude?
Hasn’t picked it out yet. Somewhere near Greenland if that helps. 😉
If he’s smart it will be a big piece off one of the Antarctic ice shelves. Bergs off Greenland glaciers tend to be craggy, unstable and prone to rolling over. Which would shorten his trip catastrophically
I’m failing to see a problem with this scenario.
Can’t wait!
I’ll bring the popcorn!
It’s cool the way they collapse and roll over. I’d never seen that before.
I hope he’s got his camera running when he gets a good look at it…
I hear some icebergs split in two. Let’s hope he’s not camped over the crack. Jokes aside, I think this man should be warned very seriously about the dangers of this stunt.
If that’s England then his steering wheel is on the wrong side.
His BRAIN is also on the wrong side
Perhaps, possibly, he drove it to England from somewhere on the Continent. Italy, perhaps. They drive left-hookers there.
So how much evil CO2 needlessly went into the air? Buying or leasing locally would have been much better. But anything to the right would probably freak him.
He’s from Italy, and they drive as the same side of the road as we do in the USA.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Italy
Well, the bus in the background is the: Arriva 280 from Thame to Oxford Hall Station. So I reckon that must be the UK alright!
Ralph
You are correct. He seems to have driven the 4×4 over from somewhere in continental Europe. Perhaps over a couple of mountain ranges featuring melting glaciers, like the Alps?
I was climbing in the Swiss Alps the morning of September 2 with fresh fallen snow beginning above 2500 meters.
I can’t wait to see this guy freeze his butt off on an iceberg for an entire year. And he’d better choose his burg carefully, they roll over sometimes.
There is absolutely no way this guy intends spending winter on an iceberg, unless he is clinically insane.
Circa October, there will be some kind of “it’s worse than we thought” supposed emergency and he will pack it in and immediately set off on a well remunerated and an all expenses paid lecture tour.
This is just an empty alarmist stunt and should be treated with the contempt it deserves, the SUV is just futher confirmation of this.
I really don’t understand the “one year” claim. If it’s supposed to melt – before it refreezes – then his stay won’t last a year. Let’s say he starts in January. If his iceberg doesn’t melt prior to mid-September, then he hasn’t really proven anything. In other words: (1) one-year success = fails to demonstrate global warming; and (2) one-year failure = demonstrates global warming. This is backwards, right?
Another scenario. Let’s say he starts in late September, then his iceberg should grow in size for another 6 months – unless he’s planning to live on one that he knows is drifting southward. But how does this demonstrate anything?
If I was doing this stunt, how would I design it? The important thing will be to get the publicity while everyone still remembers who I am. So, pick an isolated iceberg, photos on the iceberg, photos of water (the iceberg has melted already), and then home. Winter on an iceberg? How daft do you think I am?
My thoughts exactly. I remember seeing things like this before…
I hope he takes lessons from the Laplanders or Eskimos on proper protocol. Dropping trousers in -50 requires dexterity and speed.
Since he had an iceberg CG’d into his promo, I wouldn’t be surprised if he greenscreens the whole iceberg stay from the lap of luxury.
And wearing dark clothing and dark shoes might speed up the melting compared to the control berg.
You goof.
Is he never going to be caught smiling? He needs an image consultant. I understand the UK has a surfeit of them as CAGW winds down.
Just stick him on Iceland the Island that’s turning into Volcano Land. That’ll fix his butt.
Or put him on that ICE FLOW with any modern conveniences or notoriety or fan fare or computer. That’ll fix his butt. I’ll take his unwanted SUV off his hands for a year. 😉
Will he use airdrops for food and toilet paper?
Doubt the SUV can be used to remove his “waste.”
One might reasonably ask for the rationale of sitting on a melting iceberg. Icebergs have been melting
since time began – that’s what they do. Remember the Titantic, circa 1912? It hit a melting iceberg
(uninhabited, I believe). It also had recently flipped over, so was water colored and much harder for the Titantic lookouts to see from a distance (yes there were lookouts, and the lights of the ship’s deck had been doused to enable better lookout visibility. Simply going too fast – couldn’t stop in time or turn fast enough to avoid scraping the berg. If the helmsman had simply run dead into the berg, the Titantic would never have sunk. Bad luck all around.)
Hey, I drive an SUV to show how concerned I am about ‘climate change’ too. Cuz I’m not.
I think it would be very unfeeling to leave an SUV alone on an iceberg for a year. Save the SUVs!!!
Start a Save the SUV club.
OCCUPY SUV!
USA Network does that every couple of weekends.
I especially like the one where you’re sure Stabler’s about to snap and just start wailing on the suspect in the interrogation room…
Bellini would could obtain lots of publicity by driving an ox cart – while getting practical experience of the consequences of rapidly reducing CO2 by 80%.
But,but,…..the methane from that ox-cart will warm the planet!!!!!!
In other news Scientists find REAL cause of increasing atmospheric CO2.
It seems, as the planet warms, normally and naturally, large volumes of sequestered METHANE in both formerly frozen solid higher latitudes, along with sequestered methane in methane hydrate deposits in the oceans, is released. Now in the atmosphere, methane turns, by natural processes, in to water vapor and… wait for it…
CO2!
This explains why the increasing temperatures tend to lead the increasing atmospheric CO2.
The climate alarmists have the cause/effect relationship backwards.
Human CO2 doesn’t cause global warming. Global warming drives atmospheric CO2 levels!
His Geographers Stone failed him and so he turned to drugs and now the drugs have failed him.
Ha ha
Presumably no CO2 will be wasted should he need premature rescue. Will he guarantee it??
The other question is how is he going to get onto the iceberg?
Great! He is setting the perfect example for all IBH (Ice burg huggers). Go live on one.
He may end up getting hugged himself – by a polar bear.
Perhaps the experience of sitting on an iceberg until it melts would benefit all AGW activists.
Funny, “performance artist” isn’t what came to my mind. More like con artist. He’s using his fake concern for a fake issue to garner fame and bucks.
@Robin H et al. He’s acclimatizing in Siberia. Check out the reflection in the middle window of his truck in the first photo. Its clearly Russian.
So, if you take an English word and reverse the characters in a mirror, you get Cyrillic?
You, sir, have the keen inquisitiveness, observational skills and attention to detail that we need in a climate change scientist!
Haha. Reads like a reflection of AUTOPART to me. <.<
I wonder if he’s picked the iceberg that will be starring in this little play. A really big one that won’t melt for a whole year? Or a smaller one that will melt in less than a year so he can show that icebergs melt. Oh wait, icebergs DO melt. That’s never been in doubt. So what the heck is this stunt supposed to prove? Ice melts when it gets warm? He must be on the hunt for another book to author, or something. This makes no sense at all.
Build giant hamster wheels for rolling over ice bergs and connect it to a generator.
“I’m pretty sure that’s Alex Bellini picking his nose in the driver’s seat…”
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If this was supposed to be some kind of inside joke, I missed it.
Tell me it was a joke !!
Well it was occurring Inside the car…
Zoom in. It’s not even a scratch, it’s a full fledged duplex nose gouge.
He might be thinking about what he’s going to eat once he’s stuck on the iceberg.
He’s scratching his brain, maybe trying to stimulate it (before he pulls this ridiculous stunt).
There was no penetration! No pick!
No, seriously, look at the picture. The driver, who appears to be Bellini, is picking his nose.