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.
In any reasonably sophisticated photo processing program, you can change the apparent temperature of a scene. In Adobe the setting is in Kelvin, even. Notice how all of the propaganda pictures from the Arctic regions appear so warm? Full of oranges, etc? Well, it is a slider in photoshop what does it.
I thought it was illegal to allow pollution into the antarctic
Jenn Oates says:
January 22, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Are people really not aware enough to know when it’s winter up here it’s summer down there? Please tell me that people won’t fall for it. Please.
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Most people aren’t going to be watching or reading about this with their forensic heads on. Most people are barely interested and/or pretty convinced by the propaganda anyway. It will wash by as another, albeit photogenic (when the ghastly people going aren’t in shot) addition to the mountain of CAGW slurry.
The relatively few people who are critical will point out the sleight of hand but it won’t make the MSM so the job of misinforming the mainly uninformed has worked.
Or would have done if people who aren’t particularly interested weren’t bored with the whole thing anyway.
can we just leave them there?
We’re all going on a dumbass holiday
No more lying for a week or two.
Fudge and disaster on our dumbass holiday,
No more anomalies for me or you,
For a leak or two.
We’re going where the sun shines brightly
We’re going where the sea is black.
We’ve al gored it on the movies,
Now let’s see if it’s true.
Based on lyrics by Welch/Bennet rewritten by Kevin Trendberk.
Last verse removed because the lyrics did not conveniently fit.
Al Gore’s favourite word may be ‘inconvenient’.
So here is something inconvenient for him: The day before yesterday the global temperature, as measured by AMSU, was the lowest for ten years – and it’s not even a full-fledged La Nina!
See: http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
One thing is for sure, the amount of BS that will be spouted by Gore and the other sundry attendees on the perilous state of Antarctica and elsewhere on the non-event of ‘global warming’ will be one of the greatest polluting events of all time for that distant continent.
One of his greatest BS statements will undoubtedly be something about calving glaciers – along the lines of “this is not supposed to happen – at least not like this”. It would be truly memorable if he did indeed say something like: “and global warming has wiped out Antarctica’s ploar bears”, but even he is not that stupid. He will definitely lie and/or grossly distort the facts about what he sees in Antarctica – after all, he is a politician and that’s what politicians do best.
Google some of the keywords from the original Lauren Morello E&E News article above and you’ll see that this has been posted more than 40 times around the Internet. Oddly, no one seems to care how this “expedition” was arranged, how much it costs, who’s paying for it, who’s paying Trenberth and Hansen (both public employees) and how much they are getting, and related questions.
Not to mention which boat (Linblad lux tours?), how long, and where. Basic reporting stuff that in this day of pal reviews and pal reporting gets swept under the rug of the press release and back room (email) logrolling.
Just another day in climate science and “green” news reporting.
Readers might find this history of the Antarctic interesting as it puts the efforts by Gore and co (assuming that article isn’t a spoof) into historical perspective.
http://www.antarcticaonline.com/history/history.htm
Captain Cook got to within 80 miles of the Antarctic continent in 1771 and completed his first circumnavigation of the continent in 1775. The first landing was as far back as 1821 and Weddell in 1823 got further south than anyone else would in the Weddell sea for another 80 years despite a great deal of exploration in subsequent years. In this respect there are interesting hints of ice pack retreat that coincided with the substantial arctic melting I wrote about here;
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/20/historic-variation-in-arctic-ice/
I am currently writing part 2 of ‘historic variations’ and it seems apparent that the Arctic melts with astonishing regularity (the last time being 1918-1939) I think it will be impossible to write a similar article for the Antarctic as it is much less well documented and is an altogether fiercer environment.
Quite what Gore and co hope to achieve by going in summer to a place which has seen an increase in ice over the decades is somewhat baffling.
tonyb
hmmm. A guvmnt employee going on a cruise on the invitation of a lobbyist. On our time clock or is this a vacation for Hansen? I am sure he will be gifted for his speech as well. Okay, dems in office, I want to hear your outrage…(crickets chirping).
Your silence is the one and only reason I will not vote for anyone on the democratic ticket, no matter how much any one individual democratic candidate seems a hopeful choice for an independent like me.
Welcome to the Gorebull Warming pilgrimage. Will any masseuses be sacrificed?
Espen says, January 22, 2012 at 10:33 pm
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!
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About that chart: see, that’s what happens when there are too many weather observation stations! No chance of using that nice red colour, like they do up North.
Al Gore on ship headed to the Antarctic in 2012 just after a gigantic solar flare and just before the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.. buying popcorn.
A ship full of rich people sailing around with Martine’s firmly in hand telling poor people how to live.
Any chance this boat full of pirates of public money can go investigate the Bermuda triangle?
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In the spirit of truth and reality as shown by Scott Pelley’s linked CBS “60 Minutes” report, I would like to caution Mr. Gore and his fellow travelers to avoid rescuing any dogs being chased by Norwegians.
Maybe they should invite Dan Rather to come along… and Kurt Russell.
What if they offset their carbon footprints by bringing ice in with them? According to them, CO2 causes warming, which is melting the Antarctic ice, which blah, blah, blah, blah — the CO2 released from their travels melts the ice.
So bring a bunch of ice with them, dump it on the glaciers and claim that as an offset.
~More Soylent Green!
Is this going to go as well as the Greece-Israel Blockade “SS Audacity of Hope” sailing hippie-fest?
I love this line..
“Gore, Hansen, and Trenberth and more than 100 fellow travelers”
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_traveler
How appropriate for these watermelons.
“It would be quite funny if they got stuck there as a result of a sudden blizzard for about six to eight additional weeks.” — We already know what’ll happen. They’ll run like pussies to the nearest helicopter after tying the dogs outside as sacrificial lambs to the AGW gods.
Ok, if there is a god. Here’s your big chance!
After a week of daily lectures by Al Gore they may intentionally crash the boat into an iceberg just to end the suffering.
My favorite irony story is the guy who was searching for a ghost train and ended up killed by a real train. There is a lot of potential for this boat trip to top that.
Forget the Antarctic for now, there does not appear to be a problem down there. But look at what is happening in the Arctic, now that is worrying. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
Gore in Antarctica could trigger the next ice age!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gore+Effect
“Al Gore, Jim Hansen and Keith Trenberth go to Antarctica” sounds like the start of a good joke. And it turns out it is!