9.30am AEDT Saturday 04 January 2014
Aurora Australis released from tasking in Antarctica
Xue Long’s attempt to manoeuvre through the ice early this morning was unsuccessful. Xue Long has confirmed to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) it is beset by ice.
The Master of Xue Long has confirmed to AMSA that the ship is safe, it is not in distress and does not require assistance at this time. There is no immediate danger to personnel on board the Xue Long. The Xue Long has advised AMSA it has food supplies for several weeks. The Aurora Australis was placed on standby by AMSA’s Rescue Coordination Centre Australia (RCC Australia) last night to remain in open water in the area as a precautionary measure.
The Masters of both Akademik Shokalskiy and Xue Long agree that further assistance from Aurora Australis is no longer required and they will be able to provide mutual support to each other. The Aurora Australis has been released from search and rescue tasking by RCC Australia early this morning and continues to make its passage to the Casey base to complete a resupply. It will then continue to Hobart. RCC Australia will maintain regular contact with the Xue Long and Akademik Shokalskiy.
N,.Swallow’s attempt to transfer blame is just that.
With one less ATV operational on land, the leader (Turney), who by his own words was well aware of the weather situation, should immediately have curtailed the jaunt, knowing the reason the captain was anxious about the need to depart.
Incredibly, Tourney allowed the day tripping to go ahead, with the careless “passengers” delaying the departure.
Turney was the epitome of irresponsibility. He needs charging.
James (Aus.) says:
N,.Swallow’s attempt to transfer blame is just that.
He was not doing that at all. He was raising a legitimate question and warming not to shoot from the hip before being sure of the facts. Seems reasonable to me.
In fact, A pseudo-scientific ship of fools
AB –
Sky is a hotbed of CAGW – but the AFP report is a goodie. includes:
‘The Chinese have had to cancel all their scientific programme, and my counterpart in Australia is spitting tacks with anger, because their entire summer has been wiped out.’
Sky needs to do the right thing now & contact the Aussie “counterpart” for comment.
‘The Chinese have had to cancel all their scientific programme, and my counterpart in Australia is spitting tacks with anger, because their entire summer has been wiped out.’
IIRC they were trying to set up a new ice core drilling and were already on a tough schedule to set it up and drill before the weather stopped them. Aurora Australis was the ship supplying and setting up the mission.
Turney’s turkeys , “having fun doing science on the ice” have just screwed one of the major REAL climate science projects that should have been conducted this year.
Still, I’m sure Turney’s Carbonscape will be earning lots of “carbon credits”. And as they say in advertising : there’s not such thing as bad publicity.
James (Aus.) says:
“Turney was the epitome of irresponsibility. He needs charging.”
About 50,000 volts ought to do it.
It’s obvious they were not In danger and ‘Cockshure’ of themselves by this quote—“One of the first Shokalskiy passengers to arrive on the Aurora, Muru Murugesan, said the passengers were not scared and the rescue was well organised.
“It was just a question of when and how we were going to be rescued,” Mr Murugesan, from Oatlands in Sydney, said.”
It’s the beginning of the Antarctic summer, so most likely, the ice will thaw and the two ships will make their way clear. So let’s get ready for the headline when that happens.
“The Polar Ice Melts At Unprecedented Pace Swiftly Freeing the Trapped Vessels!”
The icing on the cake would be if Russia decides to send one of its rather leaky nuclear ice breakers to the Antarctic to help – eco-expedition “rescued” by a Soviet era nuclear powered vessel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker#Russian_nuclear_icebreakers
AB beat me to it. A not-so-heavily edited version is here:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h3nzY88Kg1XBjquaRTAISdFDpuJA?docId=1823eec8-8ffd-4643-b371-6b2d48f1602e
“Steve says:
January 3, 2014 at 5:19 pm
This begs the question that if now, both the SA and Snow Dragon are happy to sit in the ice until it breaks, why was there so much urgency to get the loons off the SA. I am aware that more bodies on the SA could have meant a bigger potential disaster but still, couldn’t they have cooled their heels (pun intended) for another week or so?”
An UNFCCC policy based and funded? expedition to prove global warming in Antarctic last 100 years stuck in pack ice?
As long as they are stuck it mans bad PR and it’s not UNFCCC conform.
This could have been a real human tragedy, so I should not laugh, but the enormous irony of first the ship of warmists getting stuck in Antarctic summer ice and then the rescue ship also getting stuck in Antarctic summer ice is just too much to be able to contain myself. I am glad though that all onboard are OK. I only wish Gore, Mann and Hansen had been there to share the onboard experience. It would have been fun to hear them spin their way out of that mess.
It will all come good when they sell the rights to the incident and including all the vision they should have been/are /will be recording during the ordeal.Hollywood will make a motza!
I figure about now that band of “environmental tourists” is being confined below decks by the Australian icebreaker captain and informed in no uncertain terms that their Antarctic party trip is effectively ended:
“Now hear this! No more group sing-alongs. No more lounge bar gatherings. No more dipping thermometers on strings over the rail and pretending you’re doing serious science. Oh! And the penguin goes overboard where he belongs! If the captain hears one more time that this was all caused by manmade global warming, the goofy offender goes overboard with the penguin!”
DocMartyn says:
January 3, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Brain dead Republican Todd Palin has won the 2,031 miles Tesoro Iron Dog off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, four times.
Ahhhhh, What’s Up, Doc?
I’m curious. Have YOU done ANY off road racing? Any road course racing? Any drag racing? Even ‘Big Wheel/Pampers class’ racing?
Anyone who wins the Iron Dog has demonstrated combined mental and physical skills far above the average blog troll. Anyone who wins it 4 TIMES has demonstrated emphatically the full irrelevance of your bigoted, ad hominem attack comment.
MtK
Us Australian taxpayers are footing the bill?
Class action suit, anyone?
Ponzi scheme!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
Turnery, Fogwill, Mortimer variant on the scheme is to target elderly investors whose physical condition can be at risk to strenuous conditions and stress. Many of the “Climate Scientists” on the failed Sprit of Mawson expectation are elderly pensioners with health conditions.
Likely, Ternery-Fogwill-Mortimer had the pensioners to sign “sudden death wills” to forfeit all of their monetary and property to the Sprit of Mawson Ponzi Scheme.
Getting the captain of the Russian flagged vessel to icebound the ship was the ruse to create stress amongst the elderly “Climate Scientists” in order to induce death and forfeiture of their estates.
Having an extra two weeks, given ocean going bureaucracy in the Southern Ocean plays to their hand at achieving their Ponzi Scheme.
Serious.
[If not fact-based, please id this charge as sarcastic. Mod]
jorgekafkazar says:
January 3, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Steve says: “…[W]hy was there so much urgency to get the loons off the [AS?]…”
“Why did sailors throw Jonah overboard?”
The Russians didn’t have a plank!…
“DocMartyn says:
January 3, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Brain dead Republican Todd Palin has won the 2,031 miles Tesoro Iron Dog off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, four times.”
Distraction and off topic?
Don’t respond to this?
Mac the Knife…..at 7:21 pm
Well said
JW
falcontinker says:
January 3, 2014 at 7:03 pm
You have a point there, falcon…
The Warmistas have been citing any and all weather events as proof of “Global Warming”.
Now they could be resorting to seasonal changes as proof, too!
They could claim Global Warming half of the year…or thereabouts.
It doesn’t track CO2 concentrations….but what the hell?
I’m still concerned about the crew of the Russian ship and have been attempting to find information on their status. This is what I discovered:
“…Antarctic Flying Dutchman
“…[T]he passengers…have been taken from Shokalskiy simply because they were…a nuisance…and eating away food supplies which are required for the crew remaining on board….
There wasn’t, and still isn’t any real danger to Shokalskiy.” –Mikhail Voytenko
See the very amusing article at: http://www.fleetmon.com/maritimenews/2014/2945/research-vessel-shokalskiy-may-become-antarctic-fl/
See Voytenko’s website, Maritime Bulletin at http://www.odin.tc/
Tim Groves says:
January 3, 2014 at 6:54 pm
James (Aus.) says:
“Turney was the epitome of irresponsibility. He needs charging.”
About 50,000 volts ought to do it.
Just be sure that the wind is blowing (but not too hard) so that the power is being generated by an array of bird processors aka a wind farm.
This humane comment from a Zero Hedge person;
Lore says;
“Be kind. Many acolytes and would-be technocrats had a deep personal stake in the scam, career-wise, emotionally and otherwise. “Global Warming” was the environmental equivalent of Al Qaeda, giving them purpose and feeding their need for self-superiority, external validation, community and empowerment. They’re going to need therapy. “Carbon Tax” and “Cap and Trade” programs will have to be scrapped. Whole branches of useless and expensive government and NGOs will find themselves on the streets. Some may be unable to cope.”
$400K seems light, does that cover the Chinese flight operations?