A group called http://www.coolemotion.org/ got funding from WWF to build a giant sculpture on an iceberg. As of May 6th the iceberg was still trapped in pack ice;
http://coolemotion.blogspot.com/2010/05/iceberg-still-stuck.html
But now they claim that the iceberg sunk/melted after just a few weeks:
http://coolemotion.blogspot.com/2010/06/no-iceberg-anymore-comments-of-ap-1.html
Iceberg disappeared, GPS signals from Satut. What happened?
“In the very early morning, 2nd of June, we could see at our GPS tracker that something was going on. Later we noticed that our signal moved constantly to the South East faster than the iceberg ever moved , and then suddenly moved to the North into the settlement of Satut.”
You have to read this below to really experience the cool-E-motion of it all:
The iceberg sunk………. Can you believe that an iceberg like this one disappears in only a matter of weeks? Last week I interviewed my very good friend Ole Jorgen Hammeken, standing in the sun, sweating because of the heat, while normally they can go for dogsledding untill [sic] June. It raises some questions… The whole day and night you can hear icebergs exploding, or collapsing because of this heat. What is going on? I am an artist who travelled [sic] many times through the Arctic and every year it becomes warmer and warmer. I am not a scientist, but only listen to the stories that people tell me. I am not interested in the question: Who’s guilty at this situation? Is there global warming? Not at all, I am asking the question: What if Climate Change enters my world: Can we anticipate on these fast changes? In Uummannaq the extremes started only a couple of years ago, and now it is warmer as ever before, with all consequences. I am personally convinced that we soon will experience what is happening over there, even if we only feel the tail. We need all energy and focuss [sic] on the future. My question is: How can we create a more flexible society? Climate Change is from all times, people always adapted to these changes, but are we now capable to cope with these extreme changes? We have to stop naming, blaming and shaming, and put this energy in another direction.
“What is going on?” he asks. Gosh, exploding icebergs! Gaia must be really angry right now. Since we are talking about “art” here, let’s venture back to artists of the past that traversed the Arctic, like this one.
From the website: In Search of Icebergs: Tracing the 1859 expedition of the painter Frederic Edwin Church to Newfoundland and Labrador
An excerpt from the link above, reading from the book:
Reading from the book: After Icebergs with a Painter: A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around Newfoundland, 1861, by Louis Legrand Noble
Warnings passed down through local lore flowed with stories of exploding and capsizing icebergs. The author registers a sigh of relief each time the captain signals the return to a sheltered cove. On one occasion, the two companions enjoyed the sounds and sights of a collapsing berg from a safe distance. The painter, known throughout the book merely as C—, contributed a sketch of this astonishing event to Noble’s book.
Huh, exploding and capsizing icebergs in 1859. Whooda thunk?
Some in the press are eating this “iceberg sculpture cum Titanic disaster” up:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/06/08/iceberg-sculptures-sink.html?ref=rss
What’s really funny is the pic of the sculpture, iceberg and boaters for reference in this article: http://www.adn.com/2010/06/08/1313027/global-warming-sinks-dutch-artists.html
The iceberg looks to extend about 3.5 meters above the waterline. According to DMI, Arctic temps have been trending below average and are still mighty cold;
Thus it seems likely the sculpture probably slid off the iceberg when it tipped/flipped something like this:
or this
or this
Mega hat tip to WUWT reader “Just the Facts”, who gathered most of the content and links and placed them in comments.
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Is there a chance that “we” don’t understand the dynamics as well as “we” think “we” do?
or someone stole / smashed the tracker?
They should look for it on the local Craigslist! What morons. Thank our school system and self-absorbed parents.
I know… let’s dig a hole halfway down in an iceberg and bury food in the hole. Then strand a couple of these idiots on the berg with nothing but the food in the hole.
Yeah, we would have to rescue them, but at least they would have to admit that the berg didn’t melt in a week…
Larry Sheldon says:
June 10, 2010 at 9:22 pm
“Is there a chance that “we” don’t understand the dynamics as well as “we” think “we” do?”
You’re right Larry, we don’t understand all the dynamics. Oddly, though, we don’t have to. Ice in water that is less than melting temps is plenty. Larry, the iceberg didn’t melt nor sink. I could be wrong. Perhaps the metal placed upon the ‘berg was a unique metal that had the density to force the iceberg underwater. Perhaps there was a great warm wind that moved the iceberg so far south the tropics “disappeared it” I really could happen!!
i think i have to send this to all my warmist friends.
regarding the sculpture, it is (was) obviously a penis and vagina. that’s what all art by such impossibly vacuous artists amounts to. i bet he looks like fabio.
anyway, now it’s a bumper and boat railing 😉
I am an artist who travelled [sic] many times through the Arctic and every year it becomes warmer and warmer.
Have these people not heard of confirmation bias?
There is no way one can say that it is getting “warmer and warmer” on the basis of travelling “many” times. Even the highest estimates of warming would be mostly hidden in natural variability.
When sceptics say that they don’t notice any warming, they are told that the measurements don’t lie and that we must discount what they think they notice. It should work both ways though – warmists should not be allowed to spout such nonsense, especially if they are not even residents.
BTW “travelled” is how the word is spelled, at least according to my dictionaries. (I think 1 “l” is an Americanism.
This is what I get for checking out the link to that post. I found the “Previous Posts” where I found this head-scratcher:
Gee, let me take a stab at this… Because based on the native language(s) of these people, from obviously-primitive cultures who never realized the great need to differentiate between weather and climate thus never developed separate words for each, to them you were asking why the weather changed?
Gee, they might even be so primitive they can’t comprehend why all the Arctic ice will be gone in the summer by 2013. Maybe Al Gore can stop on by and explain it to them, provided they have an airstrip suitable for landing his private jet.
That’s my possible answer. Anyone else want to take a crack at it? Any of the resident (C)AGW proponents want to explain the physics behind the changing atmospheric composition altering the perceived angle? 😉
Pst…..Pst…..Hey, Mister……..You wanna buy a GPS Tracker?
…
What is the opposite of Occam’s Razor? LPE (Least Plausible Explanation) Theory?
Maybe it was a test of this fully operational battlestation, as Emperor Palpatine once sort of said.
Oy gevalt.
As an educator in the visual arts for many years, I know that many strange and obscure pieces of so-called ‘public art’ are built using grant monies given by gullible or visually impaired donors every year. It would be interesting to read the grant history for this particular piece, to find out what it was titled and the reasons for siting it on an iceberg, a siting which would eventually result in more scrap metal somewhere on the seabed. The hilarious descripton of the GPS device suddenly wandering off to a nearby settlement is a vivd demonstration of a totally unworldly and childlike mindset which still believes in magic.
I could do without the inarticulate comments and uneducated swearing in the third video – its dramatic, now shut-up and watch.
Seems to me, correct me if I’m wrong but it seems to me that most of this Anthropogenic Global Warming crap is the result of half an education effecting an intellect of perhaps average depth.
This is not to excuse the antics of the “researchers” that ran with the concept in order to stuff their own pockets and inflate their own prestiege.
Take an individual in a lofty position some plausable sounding nightmare scenario and the folks with an undergraduate degree in sociology that carried a “C” average ate it all up. Versus the person with a “C” average in physics that said, “Aw, bull$h1t!”
WoW,
These guys are so naive. Absolutely sure George DeBusk is right. Just looking at the GPS trajectory, with the increased speed, leaves no doubts.
I can’t stop laughing!
Ecotretas
Tiff says:
June 10, 2010 at 4:36 pm
“It takes longer than a week for a pile of snow to melt in my front yard at the beginning of spring. I’m certain the Arctic is colder than that. Some people just have no common sense.”
Me>And whoever thinks that greenies have common sense, or any sense at all: I m sure many of you have see this video, when greenies were redily conviced to sign a petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide. Have some fun here:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80769350/
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
June 11, 2010 at 12:19 am
Poosible explanations of perceptual or cognitive changes producing confirmation bias from silly [anthropological] questions:
1. Recognition of oneself, respect for others, comfort:- Crawling across family members to the entrance of an igloo is different from walking from a bedroom or living room down the steps of a timber house
2. Speed and distance: – Paddling the icy waters in a skin kayak differs from motoring in an aluminium dinghy with modern day harpoons and GPS, depth sounders
3. Speed, distance and comfort:- Walking in thick hand-made animal clothing or sledding with dogs differs from snow mobiles, dinghies, helicoptors and modern day harpoons and guns
4. Speed, comfort and leisure:- Variety of dried or tinned food, condiments, kitchen fuel ‘on tap’ with cookware, alcoholic beverages and an economy other than that of survival and superstition may have provided some an angle of reckoning
5. 24 hour light derived from diesel [energy] other than the sun or candles
6. Watches? TV? Contraception? Analogue to digital?
The very first photo in this article looks… too perfect.
‘The time has come’ the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.’
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html
The fact that it slipped off the iceberg shows its worse than we ever thought out there. If it had only melted, then .. well ..erm… it would have been better than what we actually got.
This is a new phenomonon in climate change, hitherto unknown – human emissions will cause us to slip off the land
@Merovign:
Gore’s Mallet? Hanson’s Plunger? Mann’s Spoon?
“The curvy, five-metre long sculptures depict the outline of an Inuit directing a dog sled team with a long whip, in homage to an Inuit way of life that is disappearing because of climate change.”
Right. I’ll bet the Inuit themselves snickered at that gem. Still, it behooves them to play the sympathy card, and push the “catastrophic climate change” gravy train as far as it will go. Money talks.
As the cool(E)motion web site explains:
“Climate change = culture change.” An invasive idea.
Mark in London says: “I could do without the inarticulate comments and uneducated swearing in the third video – its dramatic, now shut-up and watch.”
We are dealing with 4th-grade mentalities here–figure out how to attenuate the sound on your PC.
FTM says: “Seems to me, correct me if I’m wrong but it seems to me that most of this Anthropogenic Global Warming crap is the result of half an education effecting an intellect of perhaps average depth.”
I think a careful study of all the available information leads on to believe that the objective is a crippling of the world economy, concentration of all political power in a small number of people, or to make one or two people very rich.
Or some combination of those. Education is of no particular value anywhere any more, except for understanding your inner traumas. Or something.
After posting irrefutable evidence that I am your worst fears in conspiracy theorists, I started my daily wander my list of “must read” blogs and stuff (I started here while reading the comments that were emailed to me overnight).
And lo! and behold! the following:
It is apparent that I don’t fully understand the block quote HTML. That came from http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/more-un-alarmism-exposed-by-climatequotes-blog/