From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like nothing but a publicity stunt, especially since the sea ice trend in Antarctica is up in the last 30 years:
I predict what will come of it will be much like this joke of a new report by Scott Pelley of CBS News who went to Antarctica at the peak of the southern summer to capture images of melting ice. Here’s the transcript. Antarctic summer is opposite that of the northern hemisphere and runs roughly from October through February.
Gore, Hansen, and Trenberth and more than 100 fellow travelers will depart from Argentina late next week and arrive in late summer in Antarctica, just in time to witness melting ice, put it on video, wail about the tragedy, and ask for money to combat climate change. Basically, they are going to lie with seasonal visual aids..
Scientists, celebrities to cruise with Gore to Antarctica
Lauren Morello, E&E reporter
E&E News
“This winter we will be talking about Antarctica as part of our ‘Living on Thin Ice’ campaign which will focus on how people around the globe are being impacted by the melting of the world’s ice,” Climate Reality Project spokesman Eric Young said. “As part of that effort, we are journeying to Antarctica with our chairman, Vice President Gore, and leading scientists and thinkers to see firsthand how the climate crisis is unfolding.”
Antarctica is not the only stop for Gore’s campaign, Young said, which has convened events in Ecuador, the Sierra Nevada and Brooklyn and is planning trips to Nepal and the Alps.
Perfect time for an inconveniently placed Iceberg ;0)
Ego-tourism.
I just hope they don’t leave Gore alone with any penguins. I don’t think they can run fast enough to escape that sex poodle.
Perhaps Al Gore can stay there and keep on ‘reporting’ until he actually finds some facts
Maybe he has gone to look for drowning polar bears? Oh hang on they don’t live in the Antartic. I know a bloke working down at Casey and the last thing he needs is a visit from Al, unless he is bringing more beer.
And, you can bet they’ll pick some place in West Antarctica (which has been trending warmer).
Also, if you check the source, they had this to say:
“…Antarctica is not the only stop for Gore’s campaign, Young said, which has convened events in Ecuador, the Sierra Nevada and Brooklyn and is planning trips to Nepal and the Alps…”
Brooklyn?
To discuss climate change?
“Gore, Hansen, Trenberth to make Antarctic PR expedition”
The book of this expedition has already been written, under the title “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).”, by a gentleman called Jerome K Jerome.
But I thought it was Antarctica everywhere Gore went.
Isn’t this trip a bit redundant?
And are Hansen and Trenberth just going along to witness the debacle, or to add to the effect?
LOL!
what is it about stupidity that these three haven’t figured out yet?
no trees to cut down….lots more ice…. and three stooges… all we need now is to add Mann into the mix…. instant hockey team…
I realize these comments are jokes, but they are uncalled for IMHO. It’s one thing to look down upon someone for having/promoting stupid ideas, but it’s sick to wish death upon someone for their ideas. Charge and try him for fraud, sure, but don’t forget he’s a fellow human (I think).
[SNIP: OK, enough of wishing disaster on the warmists. It’s stopped being funny several comments ago. -REP]
We need some light relief. Hansen should chain himself to an iceberg.
It may be summer down there but stuff happens:
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/01/14/292221_todays-news.html
“Former Vice President Al Gore is taking his fight against climate change to Antarctica next week…”
Er, what’s he gonna do? Persuade the ice not to melt? Sell carbon credits to penquins? Install freezers?
It would be quite funny if they got stuck there as a result of a sudden blizzard for about six to eight additional weeks. That would be interesting, those guys being cooped up with each other in the scientific huts.
This is truly incredible. Gore, Hansen, Trenberth, the Gore Effect, Blair’s Law (the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force), all destined to meet at Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness in Antarctica, Gore lurching like Frankenstein’s monster in the chaste icy waste and raving about how civilization must change its carbon ways or else when the stars are right, Gaia will rise and all mankind will tremble! and wagging his green squid cap for emphasis, while the Gore Effect calls down super-freezing like in The Day After Tomorrow. This is beyond The Onion, will Josh or Elmer be able to do it justice?
In 2005 an Antarctic cruise ship struck ice and sank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Explorer
I recall another Antarctic cruise ship struck ice and was seriously damaged a couple of years ago.
“…I’m going to Antarctica with [my family] to celebrate that trip and also Capt Robert Scott (who was a relative of ours)…” Branson.
I hadn’t realised he was so well connected — Capt. Scott I mean.
Trip motto: “We’ll go to the ends of the earth to perpetuate this fraud and protect our paychecks!”
Oh, so they are going down for the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Cape Denison camp. And of course they will compare ice conditions then to ice now.
Gore ” There are no polar bears here!They must be drowning!”
Trernberth: ” it’s worse then we thought!”
Antarctica has been way colder than normal for weeks now – always all blue in the daily anomaly chart:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/ANIM/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.30.gif
The poor penguins are missing a whole summer because of the Gore effect!
South of Cape Horn is not a good place to go. It is not responsible to bring children and people that do not need to be there. Rescue personnel and equipment are exposed to real danger for no good reason. Rescue may not always be timely or possible even in the summer. The Chilean navy and PANC are tired of this. The Chilean Air Force lost one of their planes with all on board last September attempting to land on Juan Fernandez. The weather in that part of the world is unpredictable and violent. On the bright side, maybe Big Al will lose some weight chumming the fish.
Talk about a ship of fools.
I think that it’s a great idea. January through February is the best time of year for skinny dipping, and for communing with cute and cuddly Leopard Seals in the waters off Antarctica.
No one else has said it, so I will . . .
This is a “jumping the shark” moment.