UPDATE: see the latest excuse below.
The satellite tracking map has been like this for two days. Follow the yellow brick road for an about face and head to land.
WUWT reader “strawbale” reports in Tips and Notes that:
Listen to the Row to the Pole latest news on their website, they have spent today iced in and unable to move. Apparently the climbed up a hill to see how far the ice stretched and its goes to the horizon.
…spent today “licking their wounds” is how their audio report put it…
Hopefully when cloud cover conditions improve we’ll see just how far that ice extends on the NASA MODIS page: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/
UPDATE: The latest RTTP post from their website:
As the current path is blocked by more ice sheets, the crew use the downtime to put in some drill practice, moving the Old Pulteney up onto the ice.
UPDATE2: Well here’s the problem, they are still thinking like it is 2005! Too much listening to Dr. Mark “death spiral” Serreze of NSIDC, not enough time looking at observational data. From the RTTP Facebook page:
UPDATE3: they are on the move again, along the coast, trying to find an opening
gee now if that missing usa secret glider thingy happens to land nearby….it would maybe? melt some of that nasty ice for them…
anyone got any idea where the damn thing is BTW?
I’m suggesting that RTTP be renamed DBT78.595°N
That’s Drag Boat To…….
not to be confused with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ridRDyFvYo
Just hoping they don’t do something stupid
Only from the UK !!!! (please accept my apologies)
Fergal thanks for the links on the French Sailors making their way from Alaska…to Alaska
Yours from the Land leading the battle against the non-existent
Dave
Ice?
In the Arctic….?
Who’d have thought……..?
All these nutters should go to the North Pole, it’s the best place for them, wearing a string vest and maybe a scarf just incase the weather gets nippy.
Been there…
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free ;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
[…]
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around :
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound !”
Done that.
When SHE shows up:
“Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold :
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man’s blood with cold…”
the fun part should start.
When your “science” goes south on you, then fall back on cheap publicity stunts.
When they fail, be prepared to be mocked.
You’re all a load of sceptical party-poopers. I’m giving the “Row to the Pole, but not actually the Pole and not even the magnetic pole, but where the magnetic pole was in 1996 which is handy because that spot is on land” team my total support. I’m texting them chapters from my edition of “Arctic Navigation for Dummies”, a simply Titanic volume which is a real cool read, and exhorting them to “go with the floe”.
I would post something clever, but I cannot stop laughing at the handle:
Heide de Klein
Oh, to have some Old Pluteney to soothe those poor, aching, splitting sides!
It must be some kind of hoax. Why else would the models show differently? Don’t these guys know about expert opinion?
C’mon guys – give the man a break – he sounds So Depressed. It’s no fun saving the planet ya know.
Interesting. Looking at the article two posts before this (From NCAR an “unexpected new result” …) it seems obvious to me that if one is going to row to the North pole you should start from Russia rather than the Greenland area.
I see a future for huge freight sleds.
They had better not look for dead polar bears, because they will more likely find some live ones instead. And they’ll be looking for snacks as winter gets ready to set in again.
Perhaps they missed their window of opportunity by about 89 years:
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf
Go to their site and zoom in to the max. They’re flailing.
The Gray Monk says:
August 12, 2011 at 2:39 am
“Ice? In the Arctic? At this time of the year? Whatever next! Someone will have to rethink this whole Global Warming thing if it doesn’t stop raining, and the temperatures stay below 20°C here in Europe!”
Yes! Has anyone noticed that the upper to middle midwest in the US is experiencing what Warmista would call “unprecedented” cooling? St. Louis is looking at four days of temperatures in the low to mid 80s.
My sense is that they finally figured out what to do with all that ice, so they made it to shore in order to get busy using it. Yes, I know, I am assuming more intelligence in them than they deserve.
Some of the rowers may come away from their adventure with reason to be skeptical. Slowly the word gets out as more and more find that what the press is reporting doesn’t match reality. About the same time you come to realize that just a few people around the world control most of the world’s press, and with the press they control the politicians, who control the public purse, which controls the science.
This is way beyond the level of poor planning; it qualifies as asinine and stupid.
This is a dangerous, but very clear demonstration, of the difference between theory (AGW) and reality. It also demonstrates how ideology should never usurp common sense, when lives are at stake. Even if they achieve their objective, what else, has been demonstrated. What possible science is being performed and what tangible benefit is retained, that balances the risk?
Positive thinking, got them into this mess. Realistic thinking, is the only thing, that can get them out… maybe? Consequences can not always be mitigated or nullified. GK
Get the rescue team in right now! It will be much cheaper and will probably save an idiots life!
Sorry to refer to the rescue team as idiots!
I want to sign up to be an adventurer and get sponsored by some fine single malt producer. It has all the makings of a great life. Since this fellow already has the arctic I will take the Caribbean.
Why would you want to row to the North Pole…for that matter how would you row to it? Unless you have ice-breaking canoes…
Having done a bit of Search and Rescue (US Civil Air Patrol) nothing is more aggravating than to look for or rescue someone who has purposefully got themselves into an “Oscar Sierra” situation.
I do think the Putney’s folks probably are better equipped than some,They are doing it on their own dime, Ok, then pay SAR if the time comes….