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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I like Alex’s comment about his SUV. That’s nice and above-board. I feel exactly the same way about my 1988 Mercedes 300SE.
As for the stunt itself: I think this is the only thing I have ever heard about that is more boring than watching solar panels produce energy. It’s bad radio, even worse television, will definitely not end up as a feature film. It’s even a rotten blog.
How can someone who professes to some media savvy, pick something quite as inert and static for a publicity stunt? Does Alex think anyone is going to feel sorry for the iceberg? Or for him? (“Day 29: I am so cooooold….but my poor iceberg is too warm.” “Really, Mr. Bellini? How about getting off your damn iceberg? Go have a cappuccino or something.”
Meh.
sorry, but I do not like his comments. He has lots of reasons for keeping the SUV, but no explanation as to why he got it in the first place.
The man is a trimmer. an exploiter. a band wagon rider. a sponge.
he is trying to maximise his profits. Am I right Alex ?
“15 minutes of fame” …
Don’t worry, with modern diesel shipping by air, truck, and container carrier, he will be able to eat oranges from Florida and not get scurvy.
But it better be an organic local-only sustainable orange juice. Oh wait…
Drink White Pine Needle Tea to avoid scurvy, loaded with vitamin C. I got that recently from a local TV outdoor show. Previously I had heard rose hip tea was used on sailing ships. Pine trees are easier to find up north.
http://www.manataka.org/page1474.html
Alternatively you could just chew the pine needles, I guess, if you want to try it. Might freshen your breath.
Prat.
My god, what a jerk. He’s got a whole fleet of personalised SUVs he’s posing in, he flies all over the place and he wants to highlight global warming.
Who does he think he is, Al Gore?
Besides the steering wheel being on the wrong side for England it still looks awful big for Europe. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s making a point about the US since I’ll bet that’s where that SUV comes from.
Where can I get a bet down on how long until he’s killed?
Poor chap. He is going to be assimilated by the Ice-Borg. He shows no resistance…
I think that Senor Bellini thought that this was a greenpeace or friends of the earth
blog. That explanation complete with the amazing statistics displays the true charactor
of the man. The explanation would only be plausible to those already converted to the
cause.
We need you to be honest and tell us that you love your SUV. Nothing wrong with that.
Something else funny, brought to you by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California (of course).
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/wpd/wpdfall2014.pdf
“A Series of Lectures, Demonstrations, and Films
What Physicists Do”
Moore’s Law for Green energy? The worthlessness of wind turbines will double every five years, perhaps?
You do realise, don’t you, that so far we sceptics are the only people that have noticed him? Even the BBC don’t give a f*&^%.
Oh, but they will. The BBC will love this.
Is megalomania scientific.
It’s common for megalomaniacs to demand people must do as they say but because they believe that they are special and super intelligent, they can do as they like.
Well with any kind of luck, the duffer will be exactly right on runaway global warming, and, perhaps his iceberg will remain solid for at least six months, out of that year that he plans to spend on it. And of course please no outside resources, from off that iceberg; we wouldn’t want to muddy the experiment in any way, by using carboniferous resources, to augment his free clean green renewable life style on the ice. He will have plenty of water and salt. Not sure what living on those two is like.
He looks like a hipster seeking for fame, who pays these buffoons?
alex bellini
September 1, 2014 at 1:45 pm
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Alex, I hope you realize that by the time you’re finished….it will be almost two decades with no temperature change.
….but hey, if it gives your career a boost…of gets you laid……have at it!
“””””…..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.” …..”””””
Well riding an iceberg, is not a good sea level reference from which to observe rising sea levels. But you surely will observe the sea level rising; at least relative to your perch. It will of course be an optical illusion, as it will be your Burg that is slowly sinking.
I particularly like the way that iceburgs have of suddenly flipping, as the cp and cm slowly change, until another orientation is preferred as more hydrodynamically stable.
So be a good chap and don’t rock the burg, as it might flip you off, so to speak.
One time my boss put us all through a day with a bunch of “motivational speakers”. It was without a doubt the most excruciating 8 hours of total bullshit I have ever had to suffer.
How come there’s a QR code on the side of the SUV in the 2nd photo ?
So the “Artist” will soon be homeless.
One might wonder if his approaching homelessness is caused by ‘Global Warming’ or just being a cheap and not paying the monthly rent, i.e. no job!
Thus a need to change to new digs, and get a few quid from KickStarter.
Sure the landlord has an idea about the “kick”.
Hey, Islamic State is hiring! Now there is a career for our “Artist”! And what a “BOOMING” career.
Ha ha 🙂
We should start a pool for how many days he lives on it, (regardless of the reason he stops living on it…).
What really annoys me is the potential extraction costs if things turn into a Charlie Foxtrot….
he should put up a bond…
Alex, go for it! Disregard all the negatives on this thread. Just go for it!
Go for it Alex. Now you have international attention like you wanted. Hurry up before all the ice melts. Hurry before winter sets in as that will help keep your berg from melting. You’ll be famous! The entire world will know about you. Go for it now! If you don’t spend a year on a berg now the world will think you are just some kind of fruitcake and a publicity hound. Go for it! It’s the right thing for you to do!
I hope he has $2.7 million in his bank to pay for the rescue at the end – that’s what the last one cost
Alex, don’t listen to them. Go for it. Just one thing. Please make sure you use a floating camera. I’d like to think that years from now it will wash up on some southern shore showing us what it looks like when an iceberg flips over.
-Mike
I suspect Alex is getting really worried now. He can’t have missed the flipping and cracking iceberg references. He may cancel.
Probably when the iceberg eventually rolls over and he meets his demise, he will become a AGW martyr. It will be Global Warming that caused the iceberg to roll over you see.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
So he gets on the iceberg for 3 or 4 months and then calls for an emergency evacuation because the berg is melting 5 times faster than anticipated and becoming unstable due to global warming….
The green zombies will lap that s@ur momisugly#$ up like gravy,
sad really