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
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Total irony would require for the Aurora Australis to be unable to return to the north because ice is suddenly getting blown in, keeping the pleasure cruise down there for winter.
Caleb says:
“I think the ship should download them ashore, and the base should ship them inland to a remote bunkhouse formerly used by birders studying an abandoned penguin rookery that hasn’t seen a bird since the MWP.”
You might be surprised to learn that there are people that have been doing exactly this, studying how penguin colonies have been shifting north and south as climate changes. It is fairly easy to date the changes by radiocarbon, since the temperature never rises above zero the frozen remains of the penguins last practically for ever.
http://people.uncw.edu/emslies/publications.html
However these people are real scientists who haven’t tried to twist their results to fit the CAGW narrative, so practically nobody has ever heard of them.
A fuller report from Bluff here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/9610055/Crew-thaw-after-Antarctic-ordeal
Kiselev did declare a pan-pan, not a mayday.
According to this:
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/288118/ship-back-bluff-after-ice-stranding
the Russians will carry out a full vessel inspection (and presumably that will include a report into what happened).
Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7 says:
Totally unrelated to the saga of the Akademic Shokalskiy, I had occasion yesterday to research the details behind the extreme roll incident of the Pacific Sun in 2007, depicted in this YouTube video. Views of the interior conditions can be seen here.
In the Shokalskiy class vessels everything is solidly bolted down, and the passengers are issued with coffee mugs of stainless steel, for very good reasons. The Pacific Sun rolled 31 degrees, which is quite a lot, but I’ve been in a sister ship to Shokalskiy when she rolled 40 degrees.
Very impressive start to the new year down there with most ice coverage on record: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
Just over an hour ago the Aurora Australis departed Casey, plenty of cargo on deck. Just prior 1630AEDT 15 Jan
The Impossible Polar Expedition
========================
To dream … the impossible dream …
To sail … through those frozen ice floes …
To run … where you only see penguins …
To wear … my most warm thermal undies …
To prove … the unprovable lie …
To love … with my wife here beside me (glad I brought her on the cruise now) …
To tweet … when your arms are too weary …
To take … the unwatchable selfie …
To check … how much Flannery has invested in my carbon capture company …
To plant … one million proud Kauri trees in New Zealand …
To reach … for a banana and peanut butter milkshake …
This is my quest, to follow Al Gore …
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far …
To fight the great warmist cause, without question or logic …
To be willing to march in the footsteps of Mawson … burning gallons of fuel
And I know if I’ll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie like a warmist does best,
when I’m laid to my rest …
And the world is less one more shrill, loud mouthed pest:
That one man, scorned, while the warming scam cools,
Still strove, with his great ship full of fools,
To reach … for that great Polar Star …
Surprised there has been no comment about the 666ABC interview. It is great stuff – you have to read between the pauses in Dr Tony Fleming’s responses to really get the gist!
It seems that Turney a climate scientist who lead the expedition, either did not read, or if he did took no notice of the September 2013 IPCC Summary Report for Policymakers finding that over the 34 years to 2012 Antarctic sea ice extent had grown by around 1.2 to 1.8% a decade which equates to up to a cumulative 9% increase (contrary to IPCC model predictions that it would shrink)
How deliciously ironic that it appears they got trapped in that extra sea ice
Thomho
Professor Turney may well heed the words of another great leader of expeditions: “Il n’y a qu’un pas du sublime au ridicule.” N. Bonaparte
“Are we there yet?”
“No. Shut up.”