Well, now that I’ve boarded, and there were no extinction rebellion/climate protestors at the dock in Vancouver (a hotbed of climate activism) to shout hateful messages at us, (which wouldn’t go over well with the cruise line at all) I can tell you about it.
I’m on a week long cruise to Alaska with Mark Steyn (who fills in for Rush Limbaugh, is a best-selling author, and is embroiled in a moving-like-molasses lawsuit with butt-hurt climate zealot Dr. Michael Mann). It is one of the few perks I get as a climate skeptic, since those “big oil checks” the climate crusaders say I receive to have an opinion, never seem to arrive.
Mark graciously invited Steve McIntyre, Ross McKittrick, and me on this cruise on the condition that we talk about climate to his hundreds of other guests in a special session coming this Sunday. I’m proud to be the only American on the special “climate denier” ( or as Mark once called me, poking fun at Dr. Mann’s insults about me “Climate denier extraordinaire!” ) guest list.
It is a working trip, and I’ll be writing blog posts about my experiences, the climate of Alaska, the growing in-your-face climate denying Hubbard Glacier, and much more. I also hope to have interviews/podcasts with Mark Steyn, Steve McIntyre, and Ross McKittrick.
Mark, droll as ever, is poking fun at Dr. Mann by giving out hockey stick key-chains.
I’ll have more later, stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you haven’t bought this book yet, now’s the time. It supports Mark’s efforts as well as mine.
Click here for the Amazon page on this book
Thanks to “Charles the Moderator” for holding down the WUWT fort while I’m on this tour.
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Mark is my favorite Rush guest host. 😀
Mega dittos. Tell Mark its Uyghur Wednesday and you need an update.
Are they still in Bermuda?
Love Mark Steyn!
Please – do visit a ‘disappearing’ coastal village and report how the residents are faring. While you’re up there, rent a kayak and run some tidal rapids after paddling last the ‘bergs.
Have fun, Anthony!!
Regards,
Bob
Congratulations! Avoid any tsunami caused by suddenly thawing glaciers.
sound like a fun trip. I’m sure Steyn is great company.
I love the key fobs, I cracked up laughing when I realised what the shape was.
I just RUSHED to the Steynonline website to see if I could obtain a landlubbers version of the hockeystick key ring … but alas … its a one-of. Congrats on scoring such a rare trinket in the war for TRUTH. I had to be satisfied with a Steyn hockeystick mousepad and trivet.
Enjoy your cruise on the diesel-powered oceanliner which is murdering billions of plankton with its chrome plated screws churning the pristine waters … and is simultaneously scattering microplastics throughout the arctic … further endangering the rare and beautiful Polar Bears.
You selfish MURDERER! / ha! sarc.
You saved met the trip, kenji. I wanted one too.
Maybe those hockey stick key rings will be available later.
We all want one!!!
Yes!!
But I would suggest to make it of two pieces and connect the paddle at the stick with a screw and nut. This would allow one to adjust…
The “paddle” at the end was already attached by a nut, Michael Mann. Of course since his “screw is loose” it will be easier for him to adjust to show the ever increasing crises.
Enjoy the trip. Should be fun unless there are a bunch of climate alarmist zealots on board that interrupt the proceedings.
That was a real concern, part of why I kept it under wraps. These people have no shame and wouldn’t think twice about staging protests.
some people have NO sense of humor…
and think of how much fun it would have been throwing them overboard!
Have you seen any swimming along in the cruise ship wake? Maybe chased by killer whales??
I do hope that you are not using an Ice Breaker to break up that fragile Arctic Ice as we don’t want it being blown out of the Fram straight.
After all we all know the Ice is in a death spiral.
Bon Voyage ! A spectacular area to visit. Hope the weather and seas are fine.
Have a great trip!
OMG!!! Is this the same Mark Steyn that often appears on Tucker Carlson? ER missed a golden opportunity!
One and the same.
Hey, buy them all a drink from me. Make that two drinks.
I’ll reimburse you as soon as I have enough money to do so (alas, no big oil money for this poor scientific skeptic who thinks global warming alarmism may yet drive us all into penury).
Enjoy your trip. It is great to have some reliable un-biased observers in the Arctic for a change. Looking forward to your comments. Don’t get caught in the ice.
That is a REAL Coup!
When I went on an Alaskan cruise about 10 years ago, I had to put up with a “naturalist” who was selling her book I think plus adding comments about climate change. There was no opportunity to question.
Enjoy the scenery!!!
Mark Steyn wrote a book.
Good luck with the glacier. If it recedes, it is because of the warmer temperatures that CO2 produces. If it advances, it is because of the meltwater that the warmer temperatures, due to CO2, produce. Everything is proof that more organic Carbon in the ecosystem will destroy life as we know it (do I really need a sarc tag).
Just remember that polar bears are not cute and cuddly and resist the temptation to have your picture taken stroking one – the same applies to seals.
Enjoy! I was there 2 weeks ago. Went up on the Knik glacier. 26 miles long by 5 miles wide. Went to several others as well.
We tried to fo a landing on a glacier on Mckinley but wx shut everyone down for a week.
My fly fishing trip on the upper Kenai was lost after a mishap had me going to the ER in Soldotna with busted ribs. I’ll make up for it next year. In fact, I plan on going back every year as there is too much area to cover. The geology and grand mountain ranges along with the people are incredible. You may end up staying like so many others. I found it hard to leave.
Enjoy the greatest state, scenery, people and food that only can be found in the USA.
Love the liberty stick. But is it made from sustainably sourced wood? I have to know.
Obviously, those “Hockey Sticks” are made from a single Yamal Tree ! lol
All rescued in clandestine ops from Drax woodchip piles. Whatever it takes as this is not Marquis of Queenberry any longer.
Could be made from genuine bristlecone pine.
I have one. From Mark Steyn’s defense fund initiation.
Makes me laugh, every time.
To say I am jealous would be an understatement.
Enjoy the trip and look out for the Polar Bears. Their desire to fatten up at this time of year can lead them to eat almost anything!!
They don’t eat climate deniers, they leave a nasty taste. Plus they’re old and tough.
They prefer juicy young millennial climate activists who come up and try to pet them. Much easier to catch.
It will interesting to hear about the feedback that you get from fellow passengers. Have a good time.
P.S. If you do venture off on nature trails or rivers, be alert for bear activity. They’re feeding for winter now. A guide is highly recommended.
Just in case you try to pan a little, there are recreational areas you can go. Try digging in the banks not in the stream. You’ll see some flakes. The gold in the streams are very deep and boulders make it a real challenge.
I found Talkeetna very interesting as the weather is influenced by Mt. Mckinley and others in Denaki.
For the best cuisine and accommodations, try the Talkeetna Alaska Lodge.
Enjoy!
“A guide is highly recommended” – And a can of bear spray! That or remember the old saying “I don’t have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun one other person” 🙂
A well deserved vacay for Mr Watts
One, must always worry that any bear chasing them is a bear that can not stop with just one.
Depends on how tasty the first one is and how hungry the bear is!
All should enjoy an interesting cruise as long as it is a Climate Alarmist Zealot free zone. Check for them down in the bilges.
I’d like to there.
Anthony, have a nice trip together with yours and mine favorite contrarians…
Have been in Alaska a few times when our youngest daughter was flying as helicopter pilot at the North Slope (now since a few months flying in Europe). Incredible landscape and lots of real wild wildlife from fishing grizzly’s to moose with young just passing her former house in Anchorage…
Finally, If you do find yourself at the Talkeetna Alaska Lodge, they provide shuttle service to the main town if you wish.
I recommend you fly on K2 Aviation to Mt. Mckinley for a glacier landing or just around the peaks. Top notch outfit
https://www.flyk2.com/
There have been Extinction Rebellion protesters, on Wednesdays, at the cruise ship terminal. Because cruise ships, and their passengers, are evil planet destroyers.
I know, and that’s why I kept this under wraps.
P.S. Bon voyage!
Watch out for Attenbrough and his falling ice-bergs! Maybe therell be a few rebellion protesters stuck on a berg floating past! Lets hope. Good luck with the trip, well done.
if they REALLY wanted some people to protest about?
this mob would be a prime target..except it appears they got stuck or blocked by ice;-)) lol
https://www.iceagenow.info/did-the-world-give-up-on-the-northwest-passage/#comments
Hope your ship stays clear of suchlike Anthony, and enjoy the well earnt break
They’re not blocked. They’ve already passed through and are pausing to sightsee. I’ve been monitoring their progress. Also watching Anthony’s ship. Just west of Bella Bella now.
Do these people work or do they live off their government oil checks?
I’m proud to be the only American on the special “climate denier” ( or as Mark once called me, poking fun at Dr. Mann’s insults about me “Climate denier extraordinaire!” ) guest list.
Oh those wonderful perks!
Here’s to you, sir, from a fellow proud American. Cheers! And I hope you’ll relay, “Godspeed” to Mr. Steyn from just another lowly fan.
Glacier Bay is a great cruise. Special memories from a few Augusts ago was standing on the top deck in the cool air with a bowl of thick warm green pea soup – watching the mini icebergs float by and the backdrop of beautiful mountains and glaciers.
Enjoy yourselves gents!
From my training on ice observing when in the Navy, they are called bergy bits. Next time at a party ask for bergy bits instead of ice cubes in your drink.
LOL – leave it to a Navy guy ;<)
When I was in Glacier Bay five years ago, a Park Ranger explained to us on our cruise ship that a “healthy glacier” would not be receding in the face of “climate change.”
In the same presentation she told us how the original 18th century explorers could not go up Glacier Bay because it was entirely englaciated, and that access to the Bay was only made possible as the glaciers retreated during the 19th century.
Hello? Wouldn’t that be a sign that “climate change” then had nothing to do with humans? So…why would we assume that humans are causing unprecedented changes now?
Also, she was blissfully unaware that UNLESS the Earth came out of the Little Ice Age, NO ONE, save a few hardy Eskimos, would have been living in Alaska today.
It was muddle-headedness, all the way down.
You’re sure right about there being a lot of far left nut jobs in Vancouver, as well as Victoria and the gulf islands just off the coast from Vancouver. I lived there for a couple of years in the early seventies and and it wasn’t too bad then. Not anymore. If you go into the interior of BC and northern BC, it’s not like that. Have a good trip and it sounds like it will be.