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.
Al Gore should stay there and stabilize the ice shelf with his Gore Effect powers for the time being; you never know.
Here in Switzerland the snow fall is so great that one radio commentator suggested the Alps we sinking under the weight of it. If Gore comes it’ll only get worse.
Climate Reality Antarctic Project.
C.R.A.P.
I dont think I need to say anymore.
I wonder if they will need to use the services of the icebreaker that was recently used to get people to the spot where Mawson first arrive in the Antarctic? There was no ice at the spot where Mawson first stopped his ship in 1911.
Gore effect working already 😉 New Zealand southern Alps had snow last night.
23/1/2012 max temp at scott base in antarctica was -7 deg max today I hope they take there warm undies with them otherwise it will fall off,
They’ll be on sun loungers, wearing their budgie-smugglers and complaining that there’s no ice to go in their drinks!
I wonder if Nasa/Noaa are going to launch another satellite turned anti-penguin ballistic missile during that timeframe….
This could get good.-
Do you think they will stay there? It might be unkind to point out that Captain Scott set a precedent.
Will they reenact an historical event??
“Captain Lawrence Edward Grace (“Titus”) Oates (17 March 1880 – 16 March 1912)[1] was an English Antarctic explorer, known for the manner of his death, when he walked from a tent into a blizzard, with the words “I am just going outside and may be some time”.[2]
His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware his ill health was compromising his three companions’ chances of survival, he chose certain death.”
Oh silly me – of course it’s summer.
It would be really funny if when they arrived on Antarctica there was no snow or Ice, the look on their faces would be priceless. Who would believe them when they got home?
Summer temperature in central Antarctica rarely climbs over -30C. Perhaps this boat will get too close to a calving glacier.
Big Al has become Mother Gaia’s God of winters discontent. Even mentioning visiting Antartica has caused unseasonal snowy wintry conditions in nearby NZ.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780390
There they go again, why oh why do these millionaire numpties never think?
“worrying cycle of Global Warming.”
So, Branson confesses indirectly that there is w Global Warming Cycle! Cycles imply circles going round & round, or at least they used to do in the old fashioned days when people tended to “think” before engaging their mouths! Sarc off 🙂
Just more data points being generated in the falsification testing of the Gore Effect Hypothesis.
Interstellar Bill says:
January 22, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Poetic Justice envisages the Gore Effect bringing a record-cold storm that strands their hapless ship for all of 2012, after which a slender but frostbitten crew are rescued by a nuclear icebreaker, their harrowing ordeal causing them to recant the error of the Warmista ways.
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Bill, gore’s on board, how slim could the crew be afterwards?
Seriously, though: if they wanted to be truthful about ‘this winter,’ they’d visit the Antarctic in August.
But I understand ‘truthful’ is pretty much impossible for these people.
Any chance of hiring an Italian cruise ship captain…..
Perhaps Al Baby could try and match that Brave Brit, Felicity Aston, who just crossed Antarctica alone. He’d be able to survive on body fat for at least two months; a reduced carbon footprint he could be proud of!
Well, they have The Professor (Trenberth) The millionaire (Gore) and Gilligan (Hansen) on board. And it looks like Mary Ann is along to report on things.
This should be an interesting “3-hour tour.”
I don’t get it, I really don’t. Knowing what tend to be a trend line with “cold front” Gore and “Ice age” Hansen and “We’re doomed” Trenberth, why would anyone in their right mind want to go to one of the coldest location on earth during the years of catastrophic climate change/disruption?
Gore, standing proudly in the bow, stretching his arms far and wide, “I am like a God!”
Trenberth, exclaims in a shiver, “Well, by my calculations, the evil gas we emit during this trip should be enough to keep us warm against all insta-freeze moments.”
Looking puzzled at his wireless pocket super duper model calculator, an abacus without strings, essentially just a bag of balls without the bag, Hansen looks above the rim of the boat looking at the reality of the present local, “My God, what is all that white stuff?”
Gore, standing blue in the bow, arms never moving, “I…ik…Go…!”
Alan Robertson on January 22, 2012 at 8:21 pm said:
If the icebreaker Oden still would be at Antarctica, the Swedish government would be happy to assist at no cost …
Old beardy Branson is going. Is he the same chap who own the airline? How does he get that one past the crew?
You can just predict what they will find: “Polar bears extinct in Antarctica – it’s worse than we thought.”
“The Thing” (all three versions of it) was based on John W. Campbell, Jr.’s “Who Goes There” (1938): Everybody gets done in by a really vicious alien critter. The other classic South Pole SF yarn from that period was H. P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness” (1936): Everybody gets done in by a vast horde of vicious alien critters.
If only…
I suspect Al Gore may have secretly visited the Sahara recently :o)
May Shackelton’s ghost spoil the wine