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
Icebergs also turn over with quite a bit of regularity. It’s one reason not to go hiking on them.
Ice is NOT sustainable.
Er,…well, if it melts just to refreeze, thats a pointless outcome.
Either Melt and stay water, or don’t melt and stay frozen.
If Earth insists on wasting gigatonnes of the Suns energy, in this silly planned obsolescence ICE industry, then Mankind will HAVE to fight back.
Lets occupy the poles, and send a message to the Sun, its tyranny will not be tolerated.
We’ll set up a really inclusive human megaphone method for communicating, and just to ensure we don’t add to this foolish melting, we’ll wrap ourselves in layers of Tinfoil and polar fleece.
Take that main sequence Star, so called ‘SOL’, if that really is your real name.
[we don’t need that link – waaaayy off topic – Anthony]
I think I will have an adult beverage on ice just to commiserate with our melting endangered icebergs…..hoist a glass to their fate.
Some fitting words:
Water to water, ice to vapor, may they dissolve in peace…to come again in another season far, far away as islands for birds, refuge for polar bears, water for deserts, RIP.
*No magic hat required.
@Harry Dale Huffman says: ( to the effect that 97% of WUWT readers don’t Get It.) I say:
The sentient rate of the readers hereabout runs more nearly 97% than 3%. Likely Watts was doing a play on the word “irony”. Ya think?
There are some excellent photos of the Frozen South and its icebergs by Frank Hurley from both the Shackelton and Mawson expeidtions to Antaractica c. 1911-1914
e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hurley
Another caption:
That pegged my BS meter as well. Been to the South Pole? Every year?
Caption continues:
Antarctica has the driest place on Earth. Some places haven’t seen rain in over a million years.
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. At almost 90°C below zero at Vostok. (you know; where they drill for ice cores.)
Why is such nonsense published? Think of the children.
I appreciate that my work has stirred so many of you to comment. I ask how many of you have seen what I have or been where I have? I welcome a dialogue with any of you to stop hiding behind your anonymity on the web and step forward and place a name and face with who you are, what your accomplishments and experiences have been before you try to criticize my efforts. It is so easy to hide behind your keyboard.
The Last Iceberg is not ever intended to have been a literal title but more a statement. That things do end, that there is a finite quality to all things. I never tried to be anything but an artist. In my talks I never mention climate change or global warming. I simply speak of how amazing our planet is, how lucky we all are to have such a remarkable place, and that maybe… if you could step away from your electronic devices long enough you might actually appreciate this planet for all that it gives us.
You can (and I am sure you will) say what ever you want about me and the work I have done. It will not stop me from doing what I love.
As for the photoshop comments. Travel with me and see for yourself, the amazing colors that exist without any manipulation required.
Sincerely, Camille
Trying to preserve icebergs is like trying to preserve ice cubes in your (insert favourite tipple). If they hadn’t broken free from a glassier they would not exist and trying to keep them attached would be an interesting exercise in futility.
James Bull
I know it’s hard, but get this: there are 2 (TWO!) Czech presidents named Vaclav. One is/was Havel, non-violence guru and ex-poet. Warmist. The other is Klaus, fire-breathing economist and CAGW excoriator. Still kicking, vociferously.
noaaprogrammer says:
December 22, 2011 at 10:37 am
“That picture has been photoshopped. The iceberg is way too blue for the surrounding gray sky.”
Perhaps not:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/blue-icebergs.shtml
That said, it is very tempting for photographers to boost saturation for a more eye-catching image. So though a blue sky appears to be unnecessary to get a blue iceberg, it’s possible that the photo as published is more blue than the original capture.
If the worlds bergs did not melt just think of the ice blocked oceans.
For all the negative attention that report is getting, if you actually flip through the photos and read the captions, the photographer actually mentions “I don’t think they’ll disappear, …”
Beautiful photos, I’d love to go take a trip to the poles to watch those bergs calve off the ice sheet.
– MDCCLXXVI
Also, icebergs do indeed have a very blue color beneath the ice.
I have witnessed this in the southern tip of Chile, South America. It is actually quite remarkable color. I spent hours watching a glacier (Glacier Gray) in overcast skies. Everything shades of gray and white under the overcast sky … Except the side of the glacier where the blue was quite radiant.
We never know what is photoshopped anymore, but some glaciers do indeed have a strong blue radiance without the help of the sky above.
-MDCCLXXVI
There’s no such thing any more as a brilliant photographer, only brilliant cameras. It’s quite incredible what a modern camera can do – all you have to do to get brilliant images is understand your settings a bit, buy a set of super-lenses, and point the things on ‘repeat’. I’m a pro sports photographer btw.
Camille’s work is not only adding to pollution at the poles, it’s encouraging tourism with all the attendant human and packaging wast that brings. She goes twice a year? Shame on her
Oops. Sorry, got my Vaclavs muddles. Thanks for putting me straight. Apologies for the error.
The photos are magnificent.
I, for one, am glad that someone of her talent is down there photographing such majesty.
It seems a little strange that so many in here will comment on something without doing any reading, simply assuming everyone is against us.
I feel we do ourselves some disservice by such hasty responses.
Camille, thank you for posting here. Perhaps you will stay and dialogue a bit. You stated…” I welcome a dialogue with any of you to stop hiding behind your anonymity on the web and step forward and place a name and face with who you are, what your accomplishments and experiences have been before you try to criticize my efforts. It is so easy to hide behind your keyboard.”
Your reaction appear to me to be over defensive. Most posters here are very open about who they are etc. All have valid e-mail addresses as it is blog policy. Many have extensive travel experiences as well as very extensive educations. At any rate most here are not being critical of yu, but of how your work is being portrayed, starting with the title; “Explorer Camille Seaman visits the Arctic and Antarctica to photograph The Last Iceberg” This reminds them of the entire abuse of the polar bear issue, and the lies perpetuated on how “endangered” they are when most of the polar bear populations are growing. The entire issue of CAGW is a hot button, so when your work is used to promote an agenda that is destructive to billions of people on this beautiful planet, then people react. You see Camille, many here are convinced the CO2 is good for the biosphere. We claim (with thousands of experiments and hundreds of studies to back us up) that CO2 is responsible for every crop in the world currently growing 10% to 15% more then it otherwise would. We also think that the warming caused by CO2 is mostly beneficial, not catestrophic, and far less then the IPCC projects. Many here are deeply against the one world goverment plans promoted by the IPCC , the UN and other agenda 21 advocates.
So even though you say you personally do not mention climate change (CAGW) in your talks, your work is being used to promote it here. For instance, “…Camille, 42, fears these unique, almost alien, natural features will soon become a thing of the past. “I have seen enormous physical changes at both the Arctic and the Antarctic,” said Camille, who visits both poles every year. “The Arctic is warmer, drier and has less ice, and the Antarctic is warmer and has more precipitation, which down there, becomes snow.” You need to realise that the Antarctic is not warmer, except the peninsula, and read of the deep flaws in the Steig study. The causes of loss ice in the artic are many, wind /ocean current being the primariy driver, and thewse are likely cyclical in nature, and very likely beneficial.
This statement also indicates a conjecture of CAGW, “From icebergs that tower 150ft above the water and 800ft below, to icebergs the size of London suburbs, Camille’s photography is incredibly particular. “Every iceberg I have photographed no longer exists,” explained Camille, “they have melted away…”
So yes Cammile, people here do not like natural beauty being used to promote bad science, and far worse social policy. But we are happy to discuss such issues with most anyone. Forgive the typos, in a rush this am and no time to proof or edit.
markx;
the pix is perty. The text is stupifying.
“I have never seen the same two break off the same way or collapse into the water the same way.” (#4)
Anyone capable of such solecisms should remain silent, as they remove all doubt.
This woman is clearly in the pay of BIG ICE when you are alert to the Google Ads accompanying the article-
Ice Makers & Ice Machines
All Brands of Ice Makers for Sale rent, lease. Also ice maker repairs
http://www.icemakers.com.au
You’re not fooling us for a millisecond Camille baby.
[snip. Labeling others “denialists” violates site Policy. ~dbs, mod.]
[snip]
Speaking of craziness:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/dec/21/radar1-camp-pendleton-solar-navy
Aww – c’mon mods! I am now extremely curious as to the comments you’ve found necessary to be snipped by our Yahtzee* friend! LOL
* – In our neck of the woods, yahtzee is a colloquial derogatory term for cheap stuff – often far eastern cr@p!!
[Reply: He called other commentators “denialists”. ~dbs, mod.]