The Antarctic 'research' fiasco – 'would you, could you, in a boat'?

Ice from last year – maybe they should have looked before leaving?
http://www.zen183332.zen.co.uk/CapeDenison.jpg

Am I the only one to find the most interesting aspect of this fiasco is the way the British media has managed to downplay and ignore its most damaging effects?
When you consider that the words “Rescue” and “Drama” and “Ship” have always been favorites of editors and headline writers, where have these words appeared in any headline or lead story this last week?
We seem to have entered the strange world of reporting-without-reporting in which “damage limitation” is more important than grabbing attention; “Damage Limitation” referring to their Global Warming religion.
Try, for instance, to find anywhere in the reportage the phrases “global warming” or “climate scientists” or any other related relevant information. From the way any mention of how the man-made global warming religion has been dealt yet another devastating blow, you might imagine the complete failure of the whole expedition was of no more importance than a sub-head “Man Burns Toast” or “Cat’s Paw prints Found on Desk.”
The BBC managed to avoid nearly all mention of this event, relegating it to a few tiny paragraphs near the foot of their web pages, and just skimmed over it in a matter of seconds on their TV reports. Consequently, viewers and readers are still largely ignorant of the facts, and it never made the list of the top ten items “Shared” or even the top twenty items “Viewed.” You have to hand it to the BBC: they know how to bury inconvenient truths like no other.
The Guardian tried ignoring the story, then publishing it with no mention of why the ship full of AGW worshipers, that they had sponsored, were there in the first place. Then they tried their usual trick of “spinning” the story so that global cooling was really a manifestation of global warming. That didn’t fly with their readers, so they responded with heavy censoring of the CiF comments, then disabling the readers’ comments completely, then allowing some comments again before finally following the BBC and relegating the whole thing to a minor incident of little or no importance at the bottom of their web page, and a tiny report on the inside page of their printed edition. The only mention today on the Guardian’s website is a link to a video of those trapped on the ship having a great New Year’s party.
The rest of the British media followed in similar style, the massive implications of these events being completely ignored, this time.
Maybe the party’s nearly over?

Looks like the Party goers have upset the real Scientists after their resupply ship/Icebreaker was diverted from its real job to go to the aid of these idiots.
Joe McConnell writes ..
Greetings from Casey Station on the East Antarctic coast. I’ve just returned from the deep field site at Aurora Basin where the Australians are drilling a new 400-meter ice core which we will analyze in my lab in Reno.
I’m writing with regards to the rescue effort for that tourist ship stuck in the ice near Commonwealth Bay and the enormous impact of the rescue effort on Antarctic science programs. The Australian ice breaker Aurora Australis was here at Casey in the process of unloading the coming year’s supplies for the station, as well as a number of researchers and their science gear for this summer’s activities, when the emergency response request was issued. The Australians shut down the unloading very quickly and left within a few hours after the request arrived but only about a third of the resupply was completed and a lot of that science gear was still on board. Before they left they at least were able to get the passengers including six Aurora Basin researchers off the ship. Otherwise I’d still be at Aurora Basin and would have had to stay to the end of January since my field replacement was in that group.
The short- and long-term impacts on the Australian science program are pronounced as you can imagine and I understand it is the same for both the Chinese and French programs since their icebreakers were diverted, too. I’ll be sitting down to New Year’s Eve dinner in a few minutes with a number of Australian researchers including the director of the Australian Antarctic Division Tony Fleming – many of these guys can’t complete the research they’ve been planning for years because some or all of their science gear still is on the Aurora.
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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/rescue-effort-for-trapped-antarctic-voyage-disrupts-serious-science/?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Oh dear.

How about this account of a Mawson Centenary trip I came across when seeking more info on the B09B berg? Note the dateline.
Is it deja vue all over again?
Douglas Mawson centenary trip to Antarctica frozen as cold reality sets in
MATTHEW DENHOLM, ANTARCTICA THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 21, 2011 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/hea….-1226227156367#
Forewarned was not, unfortunately forearmed in the case of Prof Turney!

JB says:
January 1, 2014 at 4:15 am
“Here’s one for you Dirky …”
You’re showing me a picture of a drilling rig being towed away from pack ice to prove what exactly? My point maybe?

From 2011
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2011/12/21/iceberg-delays-antarctic-centenary
“Three tourist ships that have been attempting to reach the cape as part of 100-year commemorations of the legendary voyage had to ditch their plans due to rare conditions caused by a mammoth iceberg, an official said.
“There is unusual ice conditions that’s affecting all the tourist ships that are going down there because the tourist ships don’t have icebreaking capabilities, and they also don’t have choppers,” a spokeswoman from the Australian government’s Antarctic division told AFP.
“So their ability to get anywhere near that Mawson’s huts area is basically stopped.” The B9B iceberg, which is about the size of Luxembourg, is grounded at the cape’s entrance and preventing what is known as fast ice — sea ice frozen along the coast — from moving as freely as normal, the spokeswoman said.
“There’s also heavy pack ice around the area as well, so there’s kind of a combination of things really,” she added.”

So with Prof Turney know in charge of a “tourist ship” according to MSM, shouldn’t he add “Failed Antarctic Tourist Guide — Dec 2013– present” on his CV?

Here is second article on it , in the Daily Mail. Even when the BBC and the Guardian are mis-reporting it some news is getting out there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532013/A-dose-COLD-reality-The-ironic-saga-eco-campaigners-trying-highlight-global-warming-melting-ice-caps-trapped-freezing-Antarctic.html
By I notice WUWT’s readers commenting on it. Oh do so love the Irony of the whole event.

Another hour, another 10 metres.
http://images.aad.gov.au/webcams/aurora/14/A140011331C.jpg

ABC $1.5 million expedition to Antarctica.
http://s446.photobucket.com/user/bobclive/media/Rec_zpsfb36118b.mp4.html

SMH/The Age now relegating the story to their “Travel” section — obviously in tune with it becoming a “tourist ship.” I feel sick.