The comedy just keeps on coming. Plus, now it seems that Turney failed to get some approvals, and his welcome home may not be all the happy. Maybe he’ll stay in Antarctica.
After having to prematurely abandon their mission due to being stuck in ice, and having a weather forecast provided that said all they had to do was wait a few more days, which came true, freeing the ship, the intrepid Dr. Turney and his gaggle of global warming geese tourists were evacuated by helicopter to the Aurora Australis, which then sailed to the Australian Casey Station to finish the resupply operations that got interrupted by Turney’s distress call.
The #spirtofmawson people are still at Casey Station, waiting for their ride home, while the Akademic Shokalskiy has made it to port in New Zealand. See the current positions of both ships:
Source: http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:168.3123/centery:-46.88068/zoom:8/oldmmsi:273458210/olddate:lastknown (h/t to reader “itdoesntaddup”)
Here is the current position of the Aurora Australis:
Above: View of Casey base from the Aurora Australis webcam. Source: http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/aurora
From the Aurora Australis sitreps reports:
Sunday 12-Jan-2014 We arrived at Casey this morning ready to commence cargo operations at 8am. We continued moving cargo between the ship and shore until 1330 when the refuelling hose was loaded on to the barge. The hose and anchoring system were deployed then the hose tested for any leaks. Once the leak test was complete pumping of SAB (Special Antarctic Blend) began. We are expecting that the completion of the refuelling of Casey will occur at around 6am tomorrow morning and we will have delivered over 850,000 litres of fuel during resupply part 1 and part 2. There is one remaining hold of cargo on the ship to discharge. When it is possible we try and transport cargo on the shore to ship as well as the ship to shore. This is not always possible depending at what stage of unloading we are at and what needs to occur to make room for the RTA cargo. It is a bit like a jigsaw but the pieces don’t always fit so neatly together. Cheers Leanne and Mark
Source: https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/schedules/display_sitrep.cfm?bvs_id=19327
What irony that the “trapped” ship has made it back, while the #spiritofmawson fools are still at Casey base, waiting for their ride home.
Meanwhile, all is not well back home. I suspect Turney won’t get a heroes welcome:
Head of Australian Antarctic science div., chides @ProfChrisTurney for saying #spiritofmawson had official approval. https://t.co/7bP8dDA8WD
— Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ (@Revkin) January 9, 2014
I see a Chevy Chase “Vacation” movie in the future stemming from this charlie foxtrot.
In the above pic of the Australis there is open water … on the sea ice page this area is covered with ice?
Send in the GreenPeace ship for rescue. Oh, it’s seized property in Russia.
Who was rescued? The Russians from the parasitic ‘scientists’
The climate forecasters didn’t trust the weather forecasters!
Martin Hovland says:
January 13, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Don’t forget to add the 28gate participants.
Are they still confined to quarters to keep them from being nuisances?
AP says:
January 13, 2014 at 1:04 pm
“…Perhaps something happened to them in childhood that can explain their current personalities.”
After reading AP’s clever post, I couldn’t help myself to post this video again. Perhaps they were on the stage when they were little and had to witness this live and up close:
It is my sincere hope that the real scientists speak out about their research was delayed. .
Idiots. I hope they are thoroughly miserable.
They did inspire me to try making a banana and peanut butter milkshake though.
In fairness they are delicious.
Well… maybe Turney’s Turkeys will get a look at how real scientists operate……
Oh good, I was hoping this would happen. Well, maybe for a couple of days. Looks like it might be a week. I wonder how many flights home are at risk of being missed?
Akademic Shokalskiy on new mission to re-stock 850,000 litres of alcohol in Antarctica.
What we see here is the real down to the earth analysis of Anthony, Coleman and the Weather Bell team versus the hysterical attitude of the Antarctic Exploration Team read climate alarmists.
Anthony, Coleman and the Weather Bell Team are right and the climate alarmists are WRONG.
Case closed.
I would love to know what the other words below “Green” were on the Aurora heli-deck (no, not the snow angel). I have suspicion the message was not complimentary.
It does not matter how the pathetic Guardian tries to dress this up. It is utter, absolute and complete humiliation. Utter humiliation. Perhaps the MSM turning of the tide stems from this moment in time.
The trouble is, this is typical of the alarmist story. Now the problem is for them that people are now starting to see through all the hype.
The reason for the evacuation: Akademik Shokalskiy Spirit of Mawson Expedition: the food situation
If Putin were in charge of this operation, he would demand cash bonds from each tourist and pseudo-scientist before picking them up.
“On the road again –
Just can’t wait to get on the road again.
The ice I loath is making laughter among my friends
And I cant wait to get on the road again…”
Rud Istvan –
do you have any link for the update from New Zealand?
good to see Revkin linking to Australian Antarctic Division director,Tony Fleming’s interview with ABC 666 radio’s Louise Maher. after all, ABC has not reported the Fleming interview nationallly, & no MSM in Australia has bothered to pick up the quotes, or talk to Fleming themselves. no wonder the dinosaur media is dying.
Fairfax media allows a different voice today:
14 Jan: SMH: Tom Switzer: Game finally up for carboncrats
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/game-finally-up-for-carboncrats-20140113-30qqo.html
I knew that when I saw that Akademic Shokalskiy made it back to port and the “rescued” scientists where still out to sea that It was a great story. It is the kind of story that newspaper men like H.L. Mencken would have told so very well once upon a time before the media in the USA became sycophantic government-worshiping drones.
I hope some very good member of the alternate media will take a crack at telling the whole tale in 2500 words or less. I’ll give it a shot myself someday when all the facts are in for the entertainment of the few score who will read it.
The biggest trouble we have in the skeptical camp is not that we need to marshal better arguments, come up with more telling data, or make our ideas more understandable. Our biggest problem is that the fellows who “buy ink by the gallon” are all telling the “CO2 will destroy humanity” myth day in and day out.
Breaking on through to the other side is going to be hard. (apologies to the Doors on that one)
OOPS!
“The ice I loath is making laughter among my friends”
Should be
“The ice I loath is making laughter in the Press”
Very funny to hear the ship they were rescued from (by those evil biggest CO2 polluters the Chinese) is now home while the rescued are still stuck in the Antarctic. And – according to the interview – they are not allowed off ship at Casey – so more cabin fever than they had when stuck! Could it get any worse for them? Plenty of time for reflection I trust.
I’m still yet to hear back from his employer how they plan to ‘discipline’ their employee…………