The image below is from the Whisky powered Row to The Pole publicity stunt.
It needs a caption. I’m sure WUWT readers will be able to provide several.
My caption suggestion is below. Winner gets 1000 carbon credits in a frameable certificate, redeemable someplace, but not here.
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“I don’t care if he WAS here first! Go hug a bear on your own iceberg.”
As to the progress of the fools, I read that their boat has runners built into the bottom to aid dragging it across ice. (Press release on unveiling of the boat.) I don’t have perspective as to how far they can go how fast that way, people have drug boats across polar ice. Apparently the “leader” Jock Wishart has walked to the Geomagnetic North Pole, which may be near Thule Greenland.
(According to Encarta 2005 the concept of “geomagnetic pole” is based on modeling the earth’s magnetic field as if it were symmetrical from one large bar magnet – seems wierd the result is so far from the magnetic pole location normally used – another “model” I suppose. The Encarta article also says the magnetic poles we normally refer to are shifted on a very short term basis by the interaction between the earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind, perhaps as much as 50 miles. (Leads me to desire inertial navigation even more, especially as GPS is vulnerable due vulnerability of satellites and interference.))
“Coachella Valley, here we come! Just remind me to turn left at Albuquerque.”
Looks like the Row to the Pole folks made it to the former MNP by pulling their boat accross ice. Given the radical difference of their actual route vs. the planned route due to ice blockage, I would say they disproved the ice free artic propaganda of recent years. Let us hope that the Row to the Pole folks finally put a nail into the coffin the the climate change fear mongering scamsters.
The guys that do it for real!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2030142/Blisters-flu-frozen-jelly-beans-werent-defeat-disabled-servicemen-WALKING-WITH-THE-WOUNDED-BY-MARK-MCCRUM.html
Are we there yet?
Honey, can’t we please stop and ask for directions?!?!
Looking at the tracking page (http://www.rowtothepole.com/satellite-tracking/), it looks like they still pulling the boat over the ice. No open water close by.
Strangely enough, they go south-east and that means they go further into the bay. Why? Maybe the ice behind is closing in?
Or they trying to get to the land nearby as it is not a good idea to stay on the ice. Someone needs to rescue them.
One comment from them “The crossing took almost 10 hours as the crew dragged the 1.3 ton boat, arriving at the 1996 Magnetic North Pole at six thirty in the evening local time (0130 BST).” indicates that the had the boat on top of the ice when they reached the pole.
Guys! By tomorrow we will probably be below 5,000,000 km2 sea ice extent. Earlier this month that was what WUWT’s readers guessed the September minimum would be. We have passed your predictions from June and July already.
OMFG!! Save the children?? Why all the hullabaloo about sea ice anyway?
Wham, bham, thank you Mann (with apologies to David Bowie)
My Mommy told me to avoid the “yellow snow”, but she didn’t say anything about this blue stuff….
“I don’t care how ‘green’ this course is!”
“Where do these damned polar bears keep coming from?”
‘What did it ever do to you?”
“The more the whiskey, better you’re lookin’…
(cue the music….)
♩ ♪ ” i only have “ice” for you…”♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ !!!
(that would be called “one cold bare poler”)
Damned ice! I wish it was warmer up here so some would melt.
How much did you say these baby seal pelts would fetch?
…and they said it couldn’t be done…let’s just plant this flag here and swim our way back home.