The Telegraph goes full stupid with this headline. The craziness is that this photo essay has to be done every year, a point apparently lost on both the Telegraph and the photographer.
And one wonders, does she realize that before 2003, icebergs existed? It’s a thought of Titanic proportions.
Too bad nobody got photos in 1922.
Oh, and that famous Mawson expedition repeat, iced out. Oh, the ironing.
h/t to reader J Orendorff
How ironic that “icebergs” actually reflect growing, not shrinking glacial systems. A receding glacier… well, simply recedes. Only a growing glacier calves off icebergs. Morons, all….
Titanic failure!
Reminds me of a movie. What was it? Oh yeah, the Last Emperor. Maybe the Telegraph should be working for Hollywood. Then again, they do at least have Chris Booker and James Delingpole to add some balance. Or should I say, heap contempt?
That ‘berg is rotten.
I do wish artists didn’t ‘try’ to be sensitive. It’s just embarrassing.
“Oh, the ironing.” lol
I went to her site. There are some really nice pictures. I don’t get the whole “Last Iceberg” thing though. Seems like just a clever name for her series rather than anything real.
For her, her children, and their children — the applicable phrase here is job security.
She will soak this delusion for the last dollar.
Where are the drowning polar bears and starving penguins? Nice photographs that are ruined by moronic warbling from the photographer. The heat up and down at the poles must be unbearable with all of that red temperature GISS graphic melting everything.
Thank goodness we have James Delingpole to strike back against the nonsense of climate change, renewable energy, the EU, the UN, the IPCC, the Government corruption etc.
I for one applaud this peerless pioneer for recording these gentle giants before they are destroyed by .038% of the atmosphere.
I also appreciate her letting us know that the massively humid arctic has been getting drier due to global warming, which is destroying the ice, while the increased moisture in Antarctica, due to global warming, is also destroying the ice. It makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it.
To quote her directly.
“A lot of people look at them and get sad thinking they will disappear forever one day,” said Camille. “I don’t think that is the case and I want people to appreciate what we have right now instead of thinking about anything that we are losing.”
She says very clearly “I don’t think that is the case”. What are you complaining about?
She should have photoshopped in a polar bear with a tear rolling down its cheek.
The Last Iceberg? Bwaa ha ha ha!
Can anyone think of a dumber title? Actually, I guess someone has: The Last Snowfall. Though that was offered as a thesis rather than a title.
Steeptown, I say it every day, Thank Goodness for James Delingpole.
She is just a fount of wisdom and priceless one-liners:
“Every iceberg I have photographed no longer exists,” explained Camille, “they have melted away…
Maybe she means “the last iceberg I’ve photographed.”
Sort of like how software engineers mention we fixed the last bug. We can’t prove there isn’t another bug (there likely is), but we can prove that’s the last bug we’ve fixed (until we find and fix the next bug).
“The Last Iceberg”
Perhaps she means the last iceberg you see if, during winter in the southern hemisphere, you go to Antarctica and travel north. After about 1 or 2 thousand miles, you will eventually come to “The Last Iceberg” and reach ice free waters.
That picture has been photoshopped. The iceberg is way too blue for the surrounding gray sky.
Camille Seaman doesn’t seem to know if her a– h— has been punched or bored from the inside or outside. What really gets me though is how in the world a newspaper such as The Telegraph can print junk like that. No wonder newsprint-producing mills are shutting down everyday – how wants to read stuff like that !!
Beautiful photos. But I presume she can only get credibility and sponsorship for her (global warming inducing) flights by making the link to disappearing glaciers, and recording something for our grandchildren. Otherwise, she would be just another tourist, and that’s self-indulgent excess that will destroy the planet.
Camille Seaman is completely clueless. Can she tie her shoes all by herself? What really gets me, though, is how in the world a newspaper such as The Telegraph will allow itself to print that junk. No wonder newsprint-producing mills are shutting down everyday – who wants to read stuff like that !!!
Just so you know, I got the “Oh the ironing.” (What a catastrophe, yawn, now where did I put the ironing board?) The only memorable line on this whole page (and I am absolutely sure 97% of your readers missed it).
Meanwhile down in the cold deep south of Antarctica a giant iceberg, the size of Luxemburg that would make the Titanic look like a microscopic dot, is preventing adventure tour vessels from reaching Commonwealth Bay to mark the centenary of Douglas Mawson’s first Australian-led expedition to the southern continent:
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/giant-iceberg-blocks-mawson-centenary-tours-20111222-1p69z.html
Or so the story goes.
Perhaps you can decipher the sea ice situation yourself here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/inside/amc/satindex.shtml
No prizes for guessing what would be copping the blame if sea ice conditions were much better for the tour vessels than when Mawson arrived a 100 years ago.
Camille says in a caption, “The Arctic is warmer, drier and has less ice, and the Antarctic is warmer and has more precipitation, which down there, becomes snow.” And snow becomes what, Camille? How does she go to the Arctic and Antarctic every year? Who pays? Why? Just think of the wasted fossil fuel carrying her toches (tukas) from pole to pole. Ironing indeed.
@ur momisugly Leon Brozyna says:
December 22, 2011 at 10:25 am
She is just a fount of wisdom and priceless one-liners:
“Every iceberg I have photographed no longer exists,” explained Camille, “they have melted away…
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Funny how that works. Every icecube I put in my whiskey also no longer exists. They have all melted away. 😉
How DARE she emit so much CO2 In pursuit of this fraudulent propaganda tale??
She should stay at home living on her vegetable garden while minimizing her “carbon footprint”
Doesn’t she know the entire planet is in grave peril??’