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.
It would be funny if there ship got stuck in Ice.
“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,”
Now that is strange as the Antarctica has never had any natives , nobody lived there at all until the European explorers set up camp. So how can people be people ‘ be impacted by the melting of the world’s ice’ in the Antarctica especial given its not be melting but growing ?
But once again the ‘gods of green’ do the very thing they attack others for doing , totally unnecessary travel that creates a load of CO2
The group will probably take one of these cruises. http://www.antarctica-cruises.org/antarctica-dream.html. No matter how you go across Drake’s passage it is seldom pleasant. I imagine some will come back with a greenish cast to them.
Not to worry about the ship’s carbon footprint, Al will be bringing along a steamer trunk of
CCX carbon credits and, for his fellow travellers, their own gas emission credit cards.
My first thought was it is a fundraising cruise, because fundraising cruises are one of the hot things in recent years. Or he could be after a captive audience for the length of the cruise.
Hey, let’s get a WUWT fundraising cruise together. Lectures every afternoon by Anthony, McIntyre, Spencer, and others.. . . . par-tay at night. Where are we going?
Everyone should take a cruise like this while they are young, also spend a winter in the arctic, and a summer in a place like Saudi Arabia out in the desert. They will come to the realization that day does not follow night and that the environment can be deadly hostile. But the biggest lesson learned will be that humans can survive, adapt and thrive in extremes where few other creatures can. We are successful as a species because we can adapt to a wide range of environments.
The people going on this tour are going to experience the raw beauty of nature and may actually learn something about the Earth. The only one I don’t worry about is Sir Robert Branson. He seems to be quite intrepid. It would also not surprise me if he also is a distant relative of Sir Francis Drake as there are some behaviours in common.
“Sir Robert Branson”
That would be Richard!
Dave: There are no polar bears in Antarctica. Giant penguins ate them all. GK
John F. Hultquist says:
That would be Richard!
I was thinking of Sir Richard’s doppelganger, the fellow with the eye patch. sorry for the confusion.
I certainly would not like to offend Sir Richard if he took it as an offense.
I believe a sail-by “salute” to the glaciers would be in order. Hopefully they’ll get real close!!
I wonder if this could be a secret family reunion. They could be honoring a common ancestor by crossing the passage named after him. They do seem to have a certain behaviour in common.
You give a chart for the Antarctic sea ice, but there is also the Antarctic ice sheet to consider. It doesn’t seem to be melting, or to melt anytime soon, and may even be gaining mass — which is what you might expect in a still-below-zero region in a globally-averaged warmer-planet. The Antarctic is tricky….
Should start a pool on where they will show up down there. Does each guest aboard the S.S. Hyperbole get a climate starter kit? Need to find out if there are any ‘news’ organizations going. Can’t find much info atm, hopefully it won’t be cancelled.
The perfect opportunity for the Gore effect to kick-in and they are never to be found again…
BTW Who’s paying for the trip?
If you ask me, I think Soros is a big trouble maker
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.print.html
>>By drawing the Antarctic into the conversation, these Warmists are placing themselves on slippery ground.
Tee hee. No pun intended I’m sure.
I am betting the Gore Effect will make another “inconvenient” appearance. New Zealand’s south island has been getting some unusual midsummer snow and cold recently. (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780390)
It would be a hoot if Gore’s boat got stuck in an ice jam or had to turn around because of a bad blizzard or crippling cold weather.
Or, take a ride on a US Coast Guard Icebreaker and help some fellow citizens that have been iced in for months.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfgt-Gkww6UucYr128SuxzRfI5_Q?docId=f753b10172ac44359d9da0d635725f49
michael hart says:
January 22, 2012 at 8:15 pm
…and global warming has already wiped-out the penguins at the North pole.
Actually n the Arctic they were hunted to extinction, I very much doubt there were any at the North Pole.
We are just going to Antarctica and may be gone some time ???
The rest of us can hope…
The CBS transcript says: “Here, 60 Minutes found there’s green where the white used to be; on the coast, in summer, THERE IS GRASS WHERE THE SCIENTISTS USED TO SKI. The area is called “Paradise Cove,” and it is home to fur seals, lazy elephant seals and the Chinstrap penguin.”
The problem with that grass is it has been there for hundreds of thousands years. Back in 2007 Ban Ki Moon, went to Antarctica before going to Bali IPCC’s Climate summit. So he saw grass in King George’s Island, off the coast, west of the Antarctic peninsula, and said: “At the same time the grass is growing for the first time in King George’s Island where it rains with more frequency than it snows.
About King George’s Island grass: the island was discovered in 1819. If you look in Google you’ll find that the grass there is called Deschampia antarctica, and is a indigenous variety original of King George island. It’s been growing there for hundreds of thousands of years, so when you hear someone saying “for the first time in history”, you can remain sceptical about the claim.
If you want to know about the heat budget of King George’s Island, this paper will give you an idea, however, precipitations have not been separated into rain and snowfalls: http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0954102095000435
And if you believe a warming world will affect penguins, you should see the biggest penguin breeding place in the Earth, Punta Tombo, in Patagonia, where 1 to 2 millions penguins share their habitat with guanacos, foxes, rabbits, and human beings wearing T-shirts… See here: http://www.patagonia.com.ar/chubut/puntatombo.php
Sorry, that link to Punta Tombo has changed: http://www.puntatombo.com/index.html
Or this one where you’ll see “guanacos”, llama like camelide: http://www.patagonia-argentina.com/punta-tombo
Phil.?? Making a funny?? The bind moggles.
In case you were serious Phil., there have NEVER been penguins in the Northern Hemisphere, so hunting them to extinction in the Arctic would have taken exactly zero effort.
I think Phil is probably confusing penguins with the Great Auk which has the scientific name Pinguinus impennis. This was the “original” penguin, the name is Welsh and supposedly means “white wing”. It was indeed hunted to extinction in the 1840’s.
And it is not quite true that there are no penguins in the northern hemisphere. The range of the Galapagos penguin extends just north of the equator. Of course it can only live on the Galapagos islands thanks to the cold waters of the Humboldt current.
[SNIP: Enough of this, already! -REP]