Friday Funny – Mann's Hot Seat

no appropriate thread for the following, so posting it as a funny. apparently some amusement in the comments, but they won’t even show for me, so i leave it to others who can access them:
28 Feb: Guardian Science: Rescue from Antarctica
After a month aboard a Russian research ship, Alok Jha and Laurence Topham found themselves trapped in the grip of the ice – and an international row over whether the expedition should have been there in the first place
• As Antarctica opens up, will privateer explorers be frozen out?
• Australian Antarctic Expedition – in pictures
Report: Alok Jha, video and photographs: Laurence Topham
What caused the massive breakout of old ice from the edge of the continent, which moved and trapped the Shokalskiy, is still unclear. “We’re looking at the satellite information, we’re working with colleagues in Germany and elsewhere to try and get a feeling for what happened there,” says Turney. “Whatever it was, something happened which mobilised this massive amount of very old thick ice, and then basically caught us and then built up progressively over the next 40 hours.”
But for veterans, the unexpected nature of Antarctica is part of life there. “We were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mortimer says. “We were not in that situation irresponsibly; we were in that situation wittingly. And we have dealt with it extraordinarily well, with ship, crew and passengers sane and healthy. It’s hard, sitting in your lounge, in a gentle part of the world, to understand the forces that are at work. But they’re much bigger than puny human efforts. They have been in the past, and they will be in the future.”…
http://www.theguardian.com/science/antarctica-live/2014/feb/28/-sp-rescue-from-antarctica

looks like no-one’s listening to Mann & Co any more:
28 Feb: Trust.org: Reuters: Barbara Lewis: EU summit to focus on industry rather than climate-draft
A European Union summit in March billed as a step in the bloc’s efforts to combat climate change will focus on strengthening Europe’s industrial base, a draft document seen by Reuters shows.
The draft is likely to increase worries among the environmental lobby, which fears its argument that green jobs are the best way to shore up Europe’s fragile economy is being ignored.
The summit “will seek ways to enhance the European industrial base as a driver for economic growth and jobs,” the document says, and adds that concerns about EU industrial competitiveness should be woven into debate on all policy, including climate…
“The regulatory framework both at European and national levels must be made more conducive towards investment and innovation and the reshoring of manufacturing jobs,” the document adds, referring to a drive to reverse a trend of losing employment to other regions of the world…
Germany is a major exception as its industry generates nearly 22 percent of economic output and it has led calls for the manufacturing base to be protected…
The renewable sector, meanwhile, says it will suffer and green jobs will disappear without stronger policy…
http://www.trust.org/item/20140228171542-z031u/?source=hpbreaking

We’ve found the missing heat!

John Whitman 6:22pm
Mr. Whitman, I apologize. Your post consisted of a fun use of Shelly’s poem that mocked Mann. I enjoyed reading it.
My post was not referencing to your post at all but to Shelly’s original poem. I went off on a topic that had nothing to do with your use of Shelly’s poem. I have always had an interest in figuring out what some of the lines which our older poets wrote actually meant. What I wrote was “way off topic” for this thread. The topic of this thread is Mann not Shelly’s poem — and I wrote about Shelly’s poem. i let my own parochial interests come to the fore when I should have just given your post a thumbs up and kept my speculations to myself about what those old lines of Shelly meant.
I apologize again.
Eugene WR Gallun

Is the anti-abortion video by Admad at 6.22 relevant to this post?