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
JMcCarthy says:
August 12, 2011 at 4:42 pm
What exactly are these people doing other than trying to promote a political agenda?
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Promote a single malt scotch ?? Many of the ads for booze in the UK feature humour (Guinness, Carlsberg, Heineken come to mind). After reading this thread, maybe it was an intended consequence ??
In fact, as a testament to their success, I think I’ll buy a bottle of Old Pulteney tomorrow. Hey, it’s only one data point, but that’s one more than the CAGW industry has !!!
Now their FB page says this:
RTTP Operations Team here. Thanks for all your messages.
Some people may have discouraging things to say about this expedition.
We ask our followers NOT to comment or reply on skeptic’s posts. Ignore them. This does not mean these concerns are being ignored.
Our team in the UK and Resolute are acting.
Make the crew proud. Lets make this an ever so British forum, lets be polite. Please do not insult or interact with this minority of skeptic.
What do they mean when they say ‘this does not mean these concerns are being ignored.’? Ignore the ‘minority’ of their messengers because their skeptics, but their message is valid?
Or maybe I’m missing something, any way, love how they say ‘our followers’ as opposed to ‘our supporters’…just an interesting turn of phrase that caught my eye.
They’ll be needing a rescue soon enough alright or they’ll have to turn back asap, is just a betting game on when now.
I hate the cold, I’d never do this, esp. in the middle of a perfectly good summer…but that’s just my canuck way of thinking.
They have not to fear – no doubt the climate king himself, Mr Al Gore will save the day & come to rescue them.
Looking for a hole in the ice? Stupid simple solution…….
Wait for a dip in the graph, and row like heck. If there isn’t a dip in the graph, reprogram the computer to make one.
lol…look at the route they are taking…so much for their ‘theory’
Bill Wenzel says:
August 12, 2011 at 6:26 pm
“They have not to fear – no doubt the climate king himself, Mr Al Gore will save the day & come to rescue them.”
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NO! NO! NO! That’s crazy talk!
Haven’t you heard of the Gore Effect? They’d be frozen into Brit-cicles in 1/2 an hour.
I’m reading some of the better comments out loud whilst watching the Bucks play at KC…and were laughing out butts off.
Appreciate the SLEGO reference, especially, for obvious reasons. 🙂
This is the best laugh ive had in ys,what a bunch of tossers…………
LOL thats the best laugh ive had in ys,what a bunch of tossers……..
This whole question of AGW validity is becoming more Lewis Carroll by the minute. All we really need now is Alice and The Mad Hatter.
When are the warmists finally going to face up to and accept that the game is over. What is becoming more and more clear by the day now is that that the evidence is in and the conclusions are manifest. AGW is, and always has been a crock.
DandyTroll says:
“Does that mean that the ice edge didn’t go down to Svalbard during the little ice age even?”
No, but it means that even in the Little Ice Age it was possible to sail around Svalbard in good ice summers, something that has been claimed as a sure sign of AGW (it was possible almost every summer in the 1930’s too, but probably not this year).
The ice-edge in summer probably was just north of Svalbard during the 17th century, since the dutch built their whaling station Smeerenburg on Amsterdam Island at the northwest cape of West Spitzbergen. This means that water there must normally have been open, but that the ice-edge was nearby, since they hunted Bowhead whales that keep quite close to the ice edge in summer.
Dear Fräulein De Klien
Can I call you Heide?
It looks like your encouraging missive have been “moderated” on the DBT78.595°N website
Congratulations 🙂
Dave
OMG! This is so embarassing. You don’t have to be British to be a total Dick Head. Think Gore, Gore, Gore. Whew, that’s better.
Best of luck to those brave men of the Canadian Coastguard. May they long enjoy those cases of “Old Pulteney” they are able to recover from this “situation”. If they can they have a braver taste than me!
“I was walking out of the hotel … and my foot goes through the ice into open water. I’ve never seen that in 20 years. So it is genuinely getting warmer, the ice shelf is diminishing. I’m not going to say why it’s happening – whether it is down to man or is just part of cyclical change – but nevertheless it is happening.” – Jock Wishart – May 2011
Yup. Sounds like a confirmed ‘warmista’, ‘eco-loon’, or whatever, to me.
So, can we remove the climate-change-based insults, and restrict ourselves to insulting people who enjoy putting themselves through arduous physical exertion in extreme environments for no good reason? Rowing the Atlantic, circumnavigating the globe, climbing Everest, … gives one a much wider scope, I think.
BTW: Regardless of the sheer pointlessness of this expedition, it was three years in the making, and the momentum of these enterprises is such that it is less costly to fail than to call the project off.
I’ll love to watch the SNL sketch on this…