You really can’t make this stuff up. The guy actually uses an SUV to advertise this climate stunt. See the photo below.
The Guardian reported in 2003:
“We want the SUV to epitomise greed, waste and global climate change. We feel that if we galvanise a movement and keep a discussion going, if we make it uncool to drive SUVs then we are doing our part in the fight.”
Today, WUWT reader Phil Westerman writes:
You featured a blog story regarding Alex Bellini who is, apparently, going
to live on a melting iceberg. I live in Thame (near Oxford) in England and
have seen the 4 x 4 vehicle in the attached photograph parked or being used
in the town over the last couple of months.
Yes, yes we did: Climate craziness of the week: Man to live on melting iceberg for one year to highlight climate change
And in that post, I mentioned that making fake CGI icebergs (like the one in the Treehugger article photo above) to promote his cause wasn’t a good way to get it started. Neither is driving an SUV advertising your ‘concern’ about climate change.
Bellini, on his personal website describes himself as (bold his):
“Alex Bellini is an adventurer, professional speaker, mental coach and an award-winning book author.“
Well, with this stunt, you could also label him as a “performance artist”. I say that, because surely there’s no science involved here (he hasn’t even thought through what he’ll do it the iceberg rolls over, as they often do), and artists tend to “feel” rather than think, which is why he probably hasn’t realized how stupid he looks driving a fossil fueled SUV to promote his climate change stunt.
A picture is worth 1000 days on an iceberg, me thinks:
I’m pretty sure that’s Alex Bellini picking his nose in the driver’s seat (click to enlarge) since according to his Facebook page, his location is indeed in Thame, UK where Phil Westerman snapped this photo.
He even poses with it:
![Alex-Bellini-iceberg2[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/alex-bellini-iceberg21.jpg?quality=83)
Source: Motherboard
Here is how I see it.
I’ll be concerned about climate change when the people who are claiming they are more concerned than me start acting like it.
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Where is that study that shows the hypocrisy of the AGW religious nuts again?
The second photo shows a q-code – another vehicle or added later? The person in the first photo is wearing glasses (not sunglasses) – someone else?
Do we know which beach he is on? Clearly not too cold based on bare feet and not warm clothing. Looks like a pier in the background. The sand and little shells in the beach might give it away too.
mmmmmm icebergs melt, don’t they?
Icebergs always melt I meant to say.
Is that a Styrofoam iceberg in the “video screen capture” picture? With something like 90% of an iceberg below the surface, there would have to be one heck of a sudden deep drop-off to have that iceberg that close to shore.
Of course seeing how clearly the iceberg is reflected in the choppy water… Post-production!
Good call.
eating his own boogers ? with no fuel, the daft fellow might end up having to drink his own urine. But I admire him so much, I’ll send him some of mine
I know all about taking the p!ss.
Is giving the p!ss the same, or the opposite?
Ralph
Where will he be disposing of his human waste during his year long stay?
Will he galvanize a movement and keep a discussion going on how to make it uncool to defecate on an iceberg or dump your human waste into the sea?
Or will he have regular, carbon fueled, potty service on the berg?
Who knows. Perhaps sitting on an iceberg for a year may become the basis for an alternative hemorrhoid therapy commercial.
SUV hate bugs me. I drove an SUV for 11 years, but gave it up because long commutes and the rising price of gas made it impractical. Now I drive very little and I miss the hauling capability, so my next vehicle will be an SUV once again. People should get whatever meets their needs and budget. We should be grateful we have such a large choice of vehicles.
Me, too! That’s exactly the same reason that I drive an SUV.
Best answer of the day , I drive one as well for physical reasons but yours are the other 75%.
Me too, but I think governments could do more. How about free fuel for SUV drivers to highlight climate change?
This is actually very tame hypocrisy compared to Al Gore and other celebrities who circle their world in their private jets while trying to save the planet. I’m sure that one flight of a jet uses more energy than I do in a year. (Not to mention the power consumption of their huge mansions.)
Watch the pea…..
In the previous post, the report was Bellini plans to find a suitable iceberg in the northwest region of Greenland, where he will remain for up to a year as it slowly melts.
According to his video, his goal is to draw attention to Global Warming and rising sea levels, through the melting of an iceberg, He “want to tell the story of… how an iceberg becomes water.” He says in the video that he “wants to live on an iceberg for 12 months”, but if he is only able to live on one for 12 weeks, so much the better for the story he wants to tell.
Suppose he really does want an iceberg that will last 12 months. That means he needs to find a berg in the late spring, summer of 2015 that looks like it will last until the freeze up in November. He must then survive the long winter until March breakup, then rock and roll with the berg until his anniversary date.
That long winter freeze up is going to be lonely. What blogger or journalist is going to visit him in his Kevlar cave when it is dark for 20+ hours per day and sub zero for months? Come to think of it, how will anyone know he is still there through the winter freeze?
A nuclear submarine will solve some problems …
Don’t some of those rather large ice-bergs last up to 3 years?
He’s giving one of my favourite composers a bad name. But one of Bellini’s operas might fit – The Puritans – ideal for this modern sub-species of righteous climate nutters.
I suggest landing a polar bear on the other side of the iceberg and betting on how long he avoids being eaten.
So may we assume that CO2 causes one to pick one’s nose in addition to all its other powers(?)
I think he will actually be living on a hidden boat under a fiberglass camouflage shell. He’ll pop up like a groundhog, if he sees a camera it will be six more weeks of shivering for his fans and sponsors. Once a week he’ll lower the shell in the mounts an inch so we can see it “melting into the ocean”.
CoastGuard -‘good morning. how can we help’
Bellendi – ‘Hi. Listen, I was driving my ‘berg up through the passage, and it kind of flipped out on me there.
Coastguard -‘You were driving what ??’
Bellendi -‘my iceberg’
Coastguard -‘your iceberg. ok. whats the registration of your iceberg please’
Bellendi -‘registration ?? it doesnt have one. its an iceberg’
Coastguard – ‘sailing an unregistered vessel ? ok whats your position ?’
Bellendi -‘I oppose fossil fuels. and will do till my dying day’
Coastguard – ‘i mean, where are you’
Bellendi – ‘Oh. right. I’m in the water’
Coastguard – ‘ok. can you describe the iceberg. make , model, color, year ?’
Bellendi – ‘Yes. made of ice, five years old, white’
Coastguard – ‘we will send help to try to find you’
Bellendi – ‘Its ok. I can see someone. 7 foot tall guy wearing a white fur coat’
Classic!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH……….
Top marks.
But surely Polar Bears are extinct by now?
Didn’t the hapless Iain Stewart of the BBC’s Climate Wars fame, drive a large fossil fuel vehicle with a hocky stick on the side around the streets of London to publicise AGW!!!!
Is that so, I didn’t know that? I can’t stand the man.
Polar bears like Italian food…….
Hi everyone, thank you for this article. Yes, this is me in Thame. I thought many time to change my old Land Cruiser for a newer one but I did some math and I ended up by saying that is more sustainable to keep it rather than dispose it. I drive my 2001 Land Cruiser no more than 10.000 km every year, I do MOT regularly and I don’t drive faster than 60 miles/hour (I would love to, actually) If I wanted to dispose it, the process itself will create as much CO2 as driving it for 6 years. Buying a new car would be great but manufacturing vehicles is harmful to the environment as well. The average vehicles (in 2007) required 4273 liter of gas to produce. That’s equivalent to 38.000 km, which is about four years driving.
Being sustainable doesn’t mean buying new stuff, you can respect the environment being aware of simple things like pro and con.
Cheers.
Alex Bellini
I believe what people were rightfully expecting from a committed global warming activist is something like this:
Segway – The leader in personal, green transportation
http://www.segway.com
Company developing and manufacturing Dean Kamen’s invention, the Segway Human Transporter – an electric scooter for use in pedestrian areas, not on the road.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/FlorenceSegwayTour.jpg
You can buy a car for what a Segway costs. They were farsighted in getting it approved in the same classification as a wheelchair. Thus it is authorized for use on pedestrian walkways. However the price is still a problem. Back in 2007 I recall them costing $5,000-8,000. So they’re only used by police departments or for tourist rentals.
Zeke,
He’s Italian?
Then if he’s gonna ride a Segway, he should ride it like this:
http://i.imgur.com/VhtoGRr.jpg
These ladies should be walking. BTW The Amazing Jonathon uses, or used to use a Segway in his magic show, at least back when he was at the Golden Nugget.
Alex: if you want to live an iceberg, then by all means go live on one. If you are able to do it for a year, that will certainly be admirable proof of your endurance, just as would be climbing K2, sailing solo around the world, or any other accomplishment in the world of extreme adventure sports.
What I don’t understand is how this has anything to do with climate change. The fact that the climate changes over time and that many icebergs melt is undisputed. Please help me understand the connection between these natural phenomenon (other than of course you need a melting iceberg) and your project.
Good luck in/on your new home.
Tom Crozier
Granada, Nicaragua
He rally needs quite good deal of good luck. Just in case of a hearty tooth-ache: is he going to call the coast guard to get him out??? We had a ship of fools in the antarctic ice, now we have a berg with an idiot on top somewhere else.
I come from a family whose members seem to be attracted to dangerous sports. Several have died over the generations and I imagine more will die in the future. But we don’t do it for a cause, we’re just adrenaline junkies.
If you lick an iceberg will your tongue get stuck to it?
Hi Alex,
Please read all the comments here. You try to justify the use of your SUV with mileage while not mentioning bicycles. I have been to Oxford and cycles are everywhere. Why not a motor bike? The fact is just before you acquired your SUV you should have thought twice. You didn’t.
Look Alex, I know you like your SUV because of it’s convenience. THAT is why stunts like yours will fail. There are others just like you who also like convenience.
Grrrrrr.
“I know you like your SUV because of its convenience.”
Alex
Well done for having the courage to show up here. You are aware that the current warming is by no means unprecedented? In Thame and the immediate area there is a great variety of material from earlier inhabitants loving in warmer times than today, including the roman warm period and the even warmer Bronze age.
Here is a paper on local places showing the earlier civilisations
http://thehumanjourney.net/pdf_store/sthames/phase3/County/Late%20Bronze%20Age%20&%20Iron%20Age/Late%20Bronze%20Age%20&%20Iron%20Age%20Oxfordshire.pdf
You are going to embark on a dangerous expedition which has no purpose to it as you will merely be highlighting that climate constantly changes from warmer than today through to cooler than today. Why not put your talents and bravery to better use?
Tonyb
I believe it’s called chutzpah.
Well Alex, you certainly are a pro at the con !
But heck, if there are people even dumber than you, willing to pay to watch you; well they deserve to be separated from their wealth.
So you have my blessing to stiff them as much as you can.
George, can you please provide evidence that there are people dumber than Alex.
Ciao, Alex.
You truly sound like a skeptic.
This is only true if you use math and common sense.
This doesn’t matter to many eco-nuts. They’d rather see you drive a Prius 40,000 km every year.
How does someone that’s trying to make the SUV to “epitomise greed, waste and global climate change” end up with a Land Cruiser in the first place?
All this being said, you’re right, of course. Do you approve of such a rational, scientific approach to all environmental matters? Do you think that economics/calculations should trump emotional perception?
Who’s paying for your rescue?
The average vehicles (in 2007) required 4273 liter of gas to produce. That’s equivalent to 38.000 km, which is about four years driving.
Good on you for doing the math Alex.
Now, have you done the math on how many liters of gas will be required to transport you, your equipment, and a year’s worth of supplies to the iceberg and back? I imagine it might be a rather large amount. Much larger in fact than building a new fuel efficient car to replace your SUV? Wouldn’t that be a better demonstration of your commitment to the environment?
You don’t have to answer…. but I do suggest you read carefully the comments about icebergs flipping over from time to time. You’re taking life into your hands with this stunt.
Don’t drive at all; walk &/or take the train.
The last lunatics to leave on an iceberg were depicted in the film, ” Rapa Nui”..
” Before anything is decided about the fate of Ramana or Make, an iceberg is spotted off the coast. Ariki-mau believes that the iceberg is the great white canoe sent to take him to the gods and goes out to it with some of his followers. After the iceberg has carried Ariki-mau away, the advisor attempts to seize control of the island, but Make kills him and the Short Ears stage a rebellion, ”
1 hour 23 minutes 49 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-tgpzixe3M
Travelling by iceberg? Priceless!
Apparently you missed the memo:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojs.2014.47050
The average human exhales between 252 Kg/yr and 525Kg/yr, or just for grins 1000 lbs/year of CO2, or 72,000 lbs in 72 years of life. Since it is plant food and natural, maybe rethink your admonishment of generating CO2. Take note of how much life is at the equator as apposed to the poles.
Weasel (stoat) words at best. Al Gore and other climate extremists use similar rationales to explain away their carbon footprints. Nobody doesn’t expect weasel words from climate extremists – thank you for not disappointing.
“Buying a new car would be great but manufacturing vehicles is harmful to the environment as well.”
Well, our society has reached an extreme where life-sustaining activity only can be categorized as harmful to the environment. Consequently, nothing is harmful.
“If I wanted to dispose it, the process itself will create as much CO2 as driving it for 6 years. Buying a new car would be great but manufacturing vehicles is harmful to the environment as well. The average vehicles (in 2007) required 4273 liter of gas to produce. That’s equivalent to 38.000 km, which is about four years driving.”
Good point Alex. My SUV guzzles also about 11 liters/100 km at 130 km/h, but that it’s the only practical means to transport mountain dogs. That’s why all of them get green light in my household.
PS. Once your project approaches the conclusion, mind iceberg tipping killer whale mobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPge_0lea3o.
WUWT says, “Here is how I see it.
I’ll be concerned about climate change when the people who are claiming they are more concerned than me start acting like it.”
Yes that can be arranged. (;
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/01/18/garden/18roomies.3.ready.html
And look, they don’t even clean it up before a journalist comes over, so you know for sure they really do live there, and are true penitents living in a MICRO SPACE, coming to a city near you:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/01/17/garden/18roomies.2.ready.html
It must be stuntin’ season supposedly Chicago’s very own Rahm Emanuel is going to “live” on $80/week for a week to demonstrate the plight of minimum wage workers. The lib-Dems, they’re so down with the little guy. /sarc
http://www.strangefarmer.com/images/content/148091.jpg
Mr. Bellini, can I join you?
“Alex Bellini is [a …] mental coach”.
Ah! So it’s a mental coach trip!
This whole stunt was a means to the end of seducing young bubble-headed adoring girls. Alex ain’t so dumb. He’s just a liar. It is just like the guys in the 1960s and 70s who were “feminists”. They didn’t care one bit about the women’s movement except that it produced a whole lotta rebellious young women who wanted to prove that they weren’t “up-tight” daddy’s-girls so they slept with anyone.
Now we have green Alex Bellini. All he wanted was some celebrity and name recognition in the church of green so that he can exploit his cache to shag as many groupies as humanly possible before his iceberg melts…rather his ice cube.
The SUV is his shaggin’ Wagon. Big rear seats!! In the 1970s it would have been either a Westfalia or a Chevy Van. Sincere he is not. Devious he is.
I wish I had been old enough to get it in the 70’s….
Just think of how many people died after acquiring HIV in the 70s. No thanks! And nobody, NOBODY used a razor on anything but beards and underarms. No thanks! And judging by the historical film and video of the era, all “getting it” in the 70s involved really annoying funk music with lots of Wahwah pedal.
Here is a comment with an image of seated airline passengers from his Facebook page. What does this mean.
By the looks of his photo stream he sure has the travel bug…………………..by plane.
https://www.facebook.com/bellini.alex.1/photos_stream?ref=page_internal
WE took off with 40 min. delay. The plane has no heating in the cabin. The temperature is 10 degrees and we were advised ” to keep him scarves hats and anything else.”
He’d obviously convinced the captain to reduce the carbon footprint of the flight. He probably thinks 10 degrees luxuriously warm.
“Being sustainable doesn’t mean buying new stuff, you can respect the environment being aware of simple things like pro and con.”
Why not get rid of the vehicle and use public transport? Wouldn’t that be better for the environment?
Here he is at a gas station. It looks like he’s helping someone fill up with gas.
http://tinyurl.com/lol5yt5
Here he is in another big fat 4 x 4 wheel? Jeep with http://www.alexbellini.it on the side / front.
http://tinyurl.com/k7p7ta8
I think we can safely ignore this man’s efforts about why WE should sacrifice – and he doesn’t.