Via Tom Nelson:
Another warmist in the Arctic: GE sponsors 15-year-old on polar trip.
Photo courtesy of GE and Scott Draper
Shortly after twice reporting a temperature of -34 C, he suggests that the ice is “falling apart” around him.
Skiing and trekking to the North Pole: Parker Liautaud blogs to save the earth – Update
Parker Liautaud, 15 years old, is reporting on his progress skiing his way to the North Pole. He has made his goal to become the youngest person to ski to the North Pole, and to use that attempt to bring greater awareness to the urgent environmental issues of the arctic.
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And more importantly for his purpose of letting the world see the ravages of global warming on the arctic – There was a lot of open water today. It really shows what’s been going on in the Arctic – it’s falling apart. Right now we’re camping on this patch of old ice, but all around us is open water, broken and thin ice. To our north there’s a massive pan of very thin ice. Everything is freshly frozen, if not open.
That’s called “leads” kid, part of the regular landscape well before your trip. Oh but wait…what is the Temperature? Thanks to Twitter reports we know.
Twitter / Parker Liautaud: Temp -34, Windchill -42. W …
Temp -34, Windchill -42. We did about 11 Nm today, it was a really good day. We have about 35 Nm left, and about 5 before we’re half way. 3:00 PM Apr 4th via API [His previous tweet also reported a temperature of -34]
Son of Venture Capitalist Gets Foursquare Badge for Polar Trip – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com
Normally if you’re the teenage child of a multimillionaire, you might expect a nice car or designer clothing as a present, VentureBeat reported.
But if you’re the 15-year-old scion of Bernard Liautaud, who founded and later sold Business Objects to SAP for $6.78 billion and is now a partner at Balderton Capital, you can probably do a lot better.
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Mr. Liautaud fils rounded up a sponsorship from G.E. for a trip to the North Pole promoting environmental awareness.
Of course, anybody can go to the North Pole, and blog about it, by paying a tour guide like this one that is with the 15 year old right now.
From the San Fransisco Examiner “offbeat places” blog:
Parker’s journey is part of an expedition that is open to the public. For more than 10 years, Doug Stoup has been guiding teams across the frozen Arctic Ocean and Antarctica. From numerous ‘Last Degree‘ treks to his most recent 660-mile epic journey to the South Pole.
Cost: €25,700 but for a quickie (I’ll bet you didn’t know you could do this as a quickie), fly from Longyearbyen to Ice Station Barneo, then take a helicopter to 89.599? North. Spend some quality time on the ice for photos and celebration and then return. Cost: €16,900.
I always like to encourage young minds in science, but this is just a glorified field trip with a guide. What a bunch of suckers GE is for paying for such an expedition.
The ice from Cryosphere Today looks better than 30 years ago.
Ease up everyone, he is only fifteen and the Arctic must surely be a very uncomfortable place to be, quite an experience for anyone whether rich or not. It is an adventure no matter what the true reasons for it. At fifteen it was all I could do to bucket up the snow slopes of the Berwyns above Pystyll Rhaeadr falls in mid-Wales in March. A trip to the Arctic would have been ‘out of this world’.
And I wonder how many 15yr-olds read this site and have seen the assertions of the young man’s ignorance, idiocy …. Do their fathers use such words about them??
Best concentrate on belittling the sponsors (GE) and the true idiots who have brainwashed the young man. But let him learn the inevitable lessons in peace.
“The expedition wasn’t a failure. We have achieved what we set out to do, which is get you guys involved.” – Parker
about 5 hours ago via API from here
Due to insurmountable conditions, Parker has ended his skiing quest to reach the North Pole and will fly there by helicopter tomorrow.
about 12 hours ago via web
The new realitys:fire does not melt steel and cold does not freeze water.
Dave Wendt (19:25:57) :
Due to insurmountable conditions, Parker has ended his skiing quest to reach the North Pole and will fly there by helicopter tomorrow.
about 12 hours ago via web
When faced with insurmountable conditions, overturn the table and declare victory.
Gubment Electric?
You mean like home inspectors required by law to certify compiance on all appliances when you sell your Home? Just as a coincidence, GE sells all the energy star appliances. Lighting, monitors, flourescent bulbs etc. stoves, furnaces, hotwater heaters.
GE and Intel Corporation announced an alliance to market and develop home-based health technologies that will help seniors live independently and patients with chronic conditions manage their care from the comfort of their home or wherever they choose.
http://www.ameinfo.com/191421.html
GE recently announced that it will spend $3bn over the next six years on healthcare innovation that will help deliver better care to more people at lower cost.
So the same GE will be the smart link between the Obamascare cube farms and the healthcare providors. What could go wrong?
So GE will control the light switch in an illumination sense and turn off the light switch in a medical sense?
There is a lot of legislation that drives business for GE!!!
The photograph was taken on the frozen river in the town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard looking South. Longyearbyen was originally a coal mining town and the ‘towers’ that can be seen are part of a now derelict cable car system for transporting coal from the mines to the harbour. Also in the left of the picture we can see dark objects which are buildings along the road connecting the town centre with ‘Nybyen’ which was originally miners accommodation. I stayed in Nybyen in 2008 and 2009.
Clearly the photograph is posed rather than being part of his journey on the ice.
It might help your readers if you explained what we were seeing.
What are the comparisons of the two photos that we should be focusing on?
What features support the assertions in your post?
TBT
George E. Smith (15:48:03) :
So taking 15 million square km as the normal max ice, and 6 million the normal min ice, that means 9 million square km of ice must melt each summer, so there must be 9 million squ km of new ice each year out of a total of 15.
Or first year ice must always be 1 1/2 times multiyear ice. on average of course.
Only if the ice is stationary George. These days the area goes from ~3Mm^2 to ~14Mm^2 so only 20-25% of the previous year’s ice remains assuming no movement. However, drift of ice during the winter out of the Fram must be replaced by fresh ice, suppose 1Mm^2 of old ice (number chosen for illustration purposes) flows out that way then you’d only have 2Mm^2 of old ice (~15%). As I recall MY ice is currently ~1.5 Mm^2 so those numbers should be about right.
Henry chance,
“There is a lot of legislation that drives business for GE!!!”
Is that what they mean by green jobs?