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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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.
We used Alpha Aviation and they were great as well.
https://www.flyalphaair.com/
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.
Enjoy your trip, you are in great company, a trip of a lifetime for most of us. Looking forward to the reports!
Enjoy yourself Anthony, you deserve it. Michael.
Sounds like fun!
and a respite from the heat we are getting in LA (yes, Lower Alabama) this week. Hope all is well Dr. Spencer.
Be sure to engage the folks from the National Park Service about Climate Change. On my trip there touring Glacier Bay earlier this year they following the Obama party line about Climate Change.
I tried to explain hot little we know about Natural Climate Variation, but as far a I could get was agree to disagree.
Do! Do! Do! I couldn’t get them to give me the time of day!!
Three of my favorite people together on my family’s favorite activity. When you note the 1000-mile length of the great forests and then think of squaring it with thousands of additional miles inland in Canada and Siberia it restores the soul.
Looking forward to a synopsis of your trip. Enjoy!
McIntyre/McIittrick deserve the Order of Canada, and the Nobel Prize for science, and medals, and trophies, and accolades to the end of time for their service to all peoplekind. I reached this conclusion after reading Andrew Montford’s ‘The Hockey Stick Illusion”. You, Anthony, deserve that award too, but alas you ain’t no Canuck.
Plus 10,00022
Darn!!!!! Why didn’t you tell me??? We went on that cruise the last of May, and it frustrated me to no end the c**p that the NPS rangers put out about global warming, sea level rise and CO2. I wanted to scream “You’ve been lied to!!!” Anyway enjoy yourself.
“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.”
Actually, Anthony, you’re the only USAsian on the trip.
Mark Steyn, Ross McKittrick and Steve McIntyre are all also American in the appropriate generic sense, because Canada, as is the US and Mexico, is but part of North America.
Hope you guys all have a wonderful trip. You deserve the vacation. I join all the others here in wishing you bon voyage, good luck, and freedom from both predatory ursini and political asini. 🙂
**Actually, Anthony, you’re the only USAsian on the trip. **
Not necessarily. People from other countries will board in Vancouver. Then the crew is composed of individuals from many countries.
Welcome to Alaska!
Don’t know if you will get into the Mat-Su Valley, but if you do be sure to visit Palmer and take a farm tour.
Palmer was the site (and the result of) the Matanuska colony project during the great depression and is now the primary center of farming activities in Alaska. Over 200 farming families from the northern regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan were sent to homestead here in the 1930’s. More than half stayed and made this area into a farming community.
Be prepared, though. Much of Alaska, and especially this south-central region has been hit with unusually high temperatures, a severe drought and forest fires this summer so the media and warmists are blaming you-know-what!
Fergie
Palmer, Alaska
Which means September in southern Alaska is temperate and nicer shirt sleeve walking weather than usual. F the alarmists. I’m in Anchorage and just got back from the Wrangels.
Should’ve invited Al Gore, you could introduce him to the polar bears.
It’ll be cold enough without Al along and don’t disturb him if he’s conducting a vegan rowing tour to catch the walruses.
Speaking of the vegan rowing tour I suspect there’s one that won’t be able to make it as she’s got too much on her plate at present-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/bbq-planned-outside-vegans-house-amid-cooking-court-battle/ar-AAGOvJz
Don’t forget to throw another shrimp on the barbie for her.
Enjoy your trip Anthony. Say hi to Mark Steyn. He is my favorite fill in for Rush. He has quite the humor.
Anthony,
All the good work you do getting the truth out, aside, it will be absolutely immoral if you do not go halibut fishing while you are there!! Enjoy!
Definite pillars for the Climate Apocalypse Edition!
Just escaped the hospital and my funds are short; but I just hit the “Tip Button” because WUWT and Anthony deserve it!
Please, buy drinks for yourself and for the Climate Apocalypse Edition supporters McIntyre, McKittrick and Steyn!
Does it stop in Vancouver to pick up Tim Ball? 🙂
Get some pretty northern light shots if you can. Been able to get views even as far south as Kelowna.
“… there were no extinction rebellion… ”
Hey don’t be too harsh on them. I am sure they wanted to be there, but it can be hard to hire a diesel generator on short notice.
If Steyn, McI, McK and Watts are at sea, let’s hope it’s just about whose buying the next round.
who’s, not whose
Watch out not only for polar bears looking to eat you in order to fatten up, but also for falling walruses. When one ton tub of blubber falls on you, it leaves a mark.
Smooth sailing !
Wish I was there .
Sorry to break the news, but they won’t be seeing any polar bears.
A meaningless graphic?
May you be blessed with clear skies and a receptive audience.
Enjoy the trip, Anthony.
You truly are a hero, and your many supporters are grateful for your efforts over the years to preserve rational thought on the subject of climate. You are a bastion against the alarmists who are governed by emotion rather than by evidence.
You are a Son of Galileo
Anthony: when in Glacier bay, obtain some of the National Park Service flyers about bay history. It has an interesting section on where the glaciers were positioned variously: pre-little ice age, at the time of George Vancouver, John Muir, etc.
The most interesting thing I found in the brochure was that in the 1600’s (or early 1700’s I don’t remember which) all of Glacier Bay was land-filled clear to Icy Strait, and one summer the glaciers started to rapidly advance. According to the native legends “faster than a dog could run.” They had to abandon their summer camps and run for the hills.