"It really shows what's been going on in the Arctic – it's falling apart."

So, skiing to the North Pole will highlight the fact that — the ice is still there?

” Paul Z. (21:00:27) :
How long before this happens in the US and UK?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/kyrgyzstani-government-ousted-in-violent-uprising/article1525821/
Note what caused the tipping point: high energy prices.”
That would be a satisfactory outcome for James Hansen apparently, and for many others. Their ideal earth would seem to resemble the post-apocalyptic of George Stewart’s _Earth_Abides.

Richard111 (22:20:12) :
rbateman (21:25:10) :
What is the point of the 2003 ice data?
The 2003 data for March/April was the latest melt start in that JAXA AMSR-E data set.
I’m following how much later this melt season is lagging behind 2003.

Well nice to see that some young people like this Parker Liautaud haven’t been brainwashed in school to believe in AGW. If he believed in AGW he would be safe at home trying to shut down the CO2 producing North Pole tourist industry which has to fly everything the tourists use from toothpaste to toilet paper hundreds of miles in and out.

The 15 year old says:

“There was a lot of open water today. It really shows what’s been going on in the Arctic – it’s falling apart.”

I would like to ask him – as compared to which other of your trips? Where’s the data?
GE needs to show warming because:

WSJ – 7 April 2010
“General Electric Co. installed more wind turbine capacity than rivals in the U.S. last year, but faces new competition from Asian companies, according to a report from the Washington, D.C.-based American Wind Energy Association, scheduled for release Thursday.
GE installed nearly 4 gigawatts, or 40% of new U.S. wind turbine capacity in 2009, up from 3.7 gigawatts in 2008, the report said. GE sold roughly $6 billion of wind turbines worldwide in 2009, company executives say.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303720604575170500339244626.html

George Turner (20:35:33) :
Gleaned from Twitter:
Parker L: Trip going well. The guys call me BB, because I’m like a bullet. They let me wear the red parka, which is like the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
Doug S: We’ve put Bear Bait (BB) in the red parka, which we hope will act like a red shirt on Star Trek and will let us see charging polar bears before they threaten the rest of the crew, who don’t continually whine and complain that the ice is less than perfect. G-d help me, I’m never having children.
As with your earlier comments & as others have noted, you are spot on! ANy chance that these “leads” can open up within seconds……..& close again within seconds too? Perhaps too much to hope. One day, someone is going to get killed doing this ridiculous macho crap, & someone else might just say, “the Arctic is a dangerous place for human beings!” The point of the red parka I thought was like the old British Army uniform, “so the blood don’t show!”

Maybe this 15 year old kid should have read the excellent accounts of Fridtjof Nansen and his subordinate Mr. Hjalmar Johansen from their two years expedition more than a houndred years ago before embarking on this guided tour or even opening his mouth on the subject of AGW and the arctic ice cap?
Then he would at least have known that sea ice have cracks and even large areas of open water all the time – as it always has (even a houndred years ago(!)).
Sea ice moves with wind, currents and surface sea conditions. Ice does not melt at -35C air temperature and -4C sea temperature. Most people learned this in school. But, ice do move, and crack up or are pressured into peaks and ridges when under pressure from wind and sea conditions. Pack ice and brash ice etc…

Let’s fisk it:-
“There was a lot of open water today.”
How are you skiing on it then?
“It really shows what’s been going on in the Arctic – it’s falling apart.”
Once again, if it is falling apart how can it possibly be supporting the weight of a group of skiiers making their way on an interrupted trek to the North Pole???
“Right now we’re camping on this patch of old ice,”
You’re only 15 – how did you get the experience to know when you are on old” ice???
“but all around us is open water, broken and thin ice.”
Better ask for a rescue then. If you are surrounded by open water, broken and thin ice you aren’t going to be making any more progress are you?
“To our north there’s a massive pan of very thin ice.”
Um, how do you know? If it is to your north then you haven’t got there yet and presumably its in your way – are you going home now kid?
“Everything is freshly frozen, if not open.”
Well it would be – you don’t get to the real old ice until your pratically at the North Pole. Right now you are skiing on ice that was frozen this winter and is floating southwards towards ever warmer oceans. Naturally it is melting – which is something it does every year around this time – just when it becomes possible for a 15 year old to take a trip on the ice because its not too cold and windy. Still at -30Celsius it still plenty cold enough to freeze the blood in your toes, if not the water coming up fromt he equator (you might like to ponder on that for a moment) – isn’t it time you came home?

Maybe a polar bear will talk some sense into this poor, savoury kid

DeNihilist (22:24:59) : / sarc on / – Didn’t you know that the whole expedition is being filmed “on location” using blue background and CGI. Just off set is a fully stocked fast food joint and gaming room. Pretty soon the game “Arctic hell” will come out – you can “die” from being eaten, falling into crevices, slow freeze, skating on thin ice, drowning or just plain boredom. I hear the on-line version is already drawing massive pre-orders from AGW teenies. / sarc off.\

What the Hell does a 15-year-old know? Considering the incredibly arrogant ignorance I have seen from kids coming out of college…

GE is, of course, a very large supplier of windmills which would explain their enthusiasm to supprt this trip.