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Erofey Schkvarkin News September 4, 2019 4:09 am
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship is on Arctic tour with Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice. All 16 Climate Change warriors were evacuated by helicopter in challenging conditions, all are safe. 7 crew remains on board, waiting for Coast Guard ship assistance.
Something is very wrong with Arctic ice, instead of melting as ordered by UN/IPCC, it captured the ship with Climate Change Warriors.
HT/David G, others keep pouring in, and my Twitter feed.
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Groundhog Day.
To paraphrase: climate activists see something working in action, but disbelieve it because it shouldn’t work in theory.
As someone who has close relatives in fire and rescue, I hope these idiots have to pay a huge “rescue tax”.
Or as I like to say: people who climb mountains are heroes. People who rescue people who TRY to climb mountains are heroes…
Again, again, again, again———
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj1lJCbycPkAhXBneAKHav6B_oQhq8BegQIARA0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrX7wtNOkuHo&psig=AOvVaw0i8pkJ0REhEJpb88A61h43&ust=1568112712716792
Enjoy the irony. Note temps have been above normal for years. The area is warming more quickly than the rest of the arctic. Ice is melting, not gone yet. Re:MS MALMO-wind turned unexpectedly, bringing ice that stranded her. &FYI 8/30- 9/5 temps went from 33.8 down to 28.22.
Is this going to be an annual rescue? These fools need to pay for the resources(and carbon) used to rescue them.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So, yes.
We who HAVE learned history are doomed to watch those who REFUSE to learn cause great suffering for everybody else.
I think it clearly has become an anal event. Their hind casting models have left them looking through only one blind eye.
“…an anal event.”
I kinda like that.
me, too – it should become an ANNUAL ANAL event
Me too, It should become an annual anal event
Annual ice analists event.
Ohhh … nevermind. I thought you said “animal” rescue? And wondered why you were upset by saving innocent animals …
The death of Arctic sea ice has been greatly exaggerated, for both political and financial reasons benefiting the Climate Change Industry. Follow the money….
Thank goodness for fossil fuels, otherwise how would have a battery operated helicopter rescued this ship of fools? There is just so much hypocrisy being preached to the world by these morons. I feel like I have seen this movie before…
It was likely that fossil fuels powered the diesel generators that kept the Climate Warriors from freezing their doodahs off!!!! Shades of the Kapitan Kalebnikov (?) a few years back carrying a party of tourists to see the ice not there, & got stuck for several days, unable to be rescued until sea-ice conditions improved, because the sea-ice wasn’t supposed to be there! Plus ca change, plus ce la memchose! AtB
Yet another blank from the BBC & all other MSM hacks!
“It was likely that fossil fuels powered the diesel generators that kept the Climate Warriors from freezing their doodahs off!!!!”
I doubt if any of them had any doodahs in the first place.
Or in the right place.
It wouldn’t have. An all electric (non nuclear) vessel and an all electric air rescue system would have ensured all aboard were Polar Bear Food (Paris the thought)
Another Ship of Fools gets the cold shoulder and has to fly home…just too much melting ice about.
FLY? F L Y ? what , what will St Greetin say about that ?
Did they use sail-based helicopters to get there? Or was it gliders? Otherwise St Greta won’t approve!
They were going to use gliders but the diesels couldn’t put out enough power to run the electric motors to stretch the rubber band to launch.
During the “Christmas Turkey Ship of Fools” there was a rewrite of a Robert Service poem around the theme of “The Ice That Wasn’t There” which could be recycled in honour of this – but I haven’t been able to find it.
Hows’s this:
Yesterday under the stars
I found much ice that wasn’t ours
I found there again today
I wish that ice would go away.
Or
Yesteryears, to doc the ice
That isn’t there, I ventured twice
The ice not there made my ship groan
My estimates had been undone.
While seven huddle, cold inside
The ice not there doth melt my pride.
My stomach feels the quease inside.
You could also do something about the ekowarrior that, “softly and silently vanished away, for the ekowarrior was a boojum, you see”.
I’ve always liked nonsense poetry.
Apologies for the missing word:
Yesterday under the stars
I found much ice that wasn’t ours
I found ice there again today
I wish that ice would go away.
For those from different cultures who are unfamiliar with the original children’s nonsense poem, it goes like this:
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I wish that man would go away.
Yesterday upon the sea
I found much ice that shouldn’t be
I found much ice again today
I wish that ice would go away.
I’ve never seen an abominable snowman
I’m hoping not to see one.
I’m also hoping, if I do
That it will be a wee one.
Maybe someone could revise Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” to “Ship of Fools”
Ship, ship, ship,
Ship of fools.
Jim Morrison and the Doors:
The human race was dying out
No one left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon
Smog gonna yet ya pretty soon
Ship of fools etc
This isn’t the one I was thinking of but Speedy’s poem will do for now
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/01/antarctic-climate-scientists-finally-return-abc-covers-for-the-2-4m-failure-speedys-epic-poem/
Found it!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/02/the-cause-of-the-akademik-shokalskiy-getting-stuck-in-antarctica-sigtseeing-mishaps-and-dawdling-by-the-passengers-getting-back-on-ship/#comment-1165100
Perfect.
Doubtless this will headline news on the Guardian tomorrow.
” Great news: the Arctic has been saved brave science expedition. “
You forgot to mention, as well as saving the arctic, the science expedition also saved 5 polar bears and half a dozen seals that will be relocated using the latest sea ice intelligence..
Ok then …the headline is general enough to cover saving the polar bears and seals…my apology..
“It was worse than they thought.”
It always is.
Pity they haven’t figured out the common element in all their wrong predictions…. themselves.
The problem with those activists, warriors and other kinds of alarmists is that most of them believe their own lies. So, they really think there is no ice up there.
And possibly even after being rescued they insist in their state of denial.
Tom, it would have been oh so tempting to just leave them there on the basis of my earlier post above, i.e. the ice has all but gone what’s your problem?
I hope they got very cold, scared and suffered a bit. Perhaps even got some cuts and bruises. Idiots.
Well they wanted to see the reality of global warming for themselves and they did. I’m sure they realise it was money well spent.
Maybe they can get a refund from the Guardian for lying to them.
There seems to be a never ending tap of other people’s money. Energy and lifestyle taxes rinsed through the charity and quango sectors.
Ha,Ha,Ha. Fools
Good morning Howard (UTC),
Please see my other comments requesting a correction to the “fake news” reported in Charles’ OP.
The only “fools” here are those who swallow the garbage spouted by “right-wing websites” hook, line and sinker!
Maybe they should have checked the error bars on their climate models. It seems that Pat Frank’s thoughts may have a broader reach to the climate activists then they might have ever expected. Wonder if the Helicopters were electric.
I’m sure the ice breaker the freed the ship wasn’t running on batteries or solar panels or wind turbines, or sails.
I think that an earlier Lord Franklin would have something to say about sails in the Arctic…
Russ/RAH,
The “icebreaker” didn’t “free the ship”. According to the (autotranslated) correction issued by the Norwegian web site that “broke” the “story”:
The coast guard ship KV Andenes escorted MS Malmö out of the Hinlopen Strait on Svalbard on Wednesday, after the vessel itself had managed to recover from the ice.
Please also note that Hinlopen Strait is on the opposite side of Spitsbergen to Longyearbyen.
They shouldn’t have rescued these fools (at least for the sake of polar bears welfare):
– before dying from cold and/or being eaten by polar bears, those idiots could have produced for once in their life a TRUE documentary on the ACTUAL climate in the Svalbard area with the title : “The cold it kills stupid (and the polar bears don’t help) !”
Loyal, Nick,
Apologies from Svalbard for trapping your climate faithful in a slight scrim of rotten first year ice in September when Ice Free conditions were preordained by the Holy Sepulchre IPCC
Dang autocorrect
Loydo and Nick
Aarrr me hearties, Arctic Ice must verily be a pirate to capture helpless research ships like that! Pieces of Eight! Pieces of Eight! What fun!
Victims of GroupThink.
Me think “Victims of group Freeze”
Brain Freeze: When you eat too much ice that you knew wasn’t there.
“Victims of group “low resolution thinking”.
Sounds like they are nominees for the Environmental Darwin Awards, failing to understand the true nature of the environment, and putting both themselves and others in danger.
This is an “ad” for the company that operates the ship.
Seems to have been built in 1943 by Sweden Not a good idea to take into thick ice. More of a vanity tourist ship.
Anyway the link shows pictures of the inside of the ship.
michael
https://waterproof-expeditions.com/vessels/ms-malmo
Looked at the specifications; smaller than my first impression from looking at the photo:
Ship Specifications
Crew: 8
Guests: max 15
Length: 37.05 m
Breadth: 8.80
Draft: 4.91 m
Ice Class: Ice strengthen according to Lloyds highest ice class
Cruising Speed: 10 Knots
Built: 1943 Helsingborg, Sweden
Refurbished and total overhaul: 2014
Registered: Göteborg, Sweden
I always sleep well to the tune of a diesel engine.
Then don’t become a truck driver! 🙂
Looking at the Malmo trip schedule, they seem to make a “Winter Whales of Norway” cruise every week out of Tromsø. Could be fun, but looks pricey (air evac not included). There is an upcoming “Northern Lights Cruise” January 28 – February 3rd next year which from the photo anyway looks really spectacular.
Seems like an honest ship just trying to make a living. Not their fault they got chartered by Climate Warriers.
Don’t know if I’m buying “…honest ship just trying to make a living. Not their fault they got chartered by Climate Warriers….”.
This is why you’re supposed to have a licensed, experienced, knowledgable, un-drunk captain in charge of the ship.
Or could it be that the skipper is something of a “warmist” himself?
I just cracked a rib laughing.
Congratulations !
You are climate change´s first victim.
you just made my day …
Earth Hour is to be blamed. The excess ice is caused by too many taking their phone chargers off standby.
I hope the beautiful little old ship will survive and get free of the ice:
https://arcticwildlifetours.com/ms-malmo/
I was once tempted to go on a trip with MS Malmö in 2014, together with Dr. Fred Goldberg from Swedish Polar Institute AB. – How I miss Fred Goldberg.
From a private email from Fred Goldberg I will take the liberty to translate a small paragraph:
“If the ice increase or diminish is observed optically from satellite every month by NASA since 1979, but the problem is that you cannot see the thickness of the ice or how much the ice has packed-up. What actually register with higher accuracy, is how much open water there is.”
Agree that’s a fine ship. Unfortunately it’s being abused by the operators.
How many more embarrassing trips into the warm Arctic waters are these Disciples of Climate Change religion going to make, before one of the believers asks a real question about man made climate change?
A question like, why is there so much ice everywhere? Or maybe? Why isn’t Al up here to tell us why this ice free ocean he told us about all those years ago has so much residual ice in it?
Well, see, warmth is sneaky. It can take the form of ice. It looks cold, but it’s really hot. This is very scientifical. Really.
A little video action here : https://www.nrk.no/troms/redningsaksjon-pa-svalbard-1.14687014#
Naive buffoons.
Clearly, the Russians are not afraid to call a spade a spade and put it in the paper. You won’t find any of it in the MSM. Isn’t that ironic?
The dummies should have been left there to sweat it out.
yeah I agree, a decent taste of their stupidity!
after all the crew have to stay and put up with the conditions , those who wanted to go see…should too.
reality-what a concept;-)
That is a mighty powerful chopper in the video (Thanks Charlie 1250am). How much fossil fuel does that use in an hour?
Looks to be a Super Puma. Twin engine cruise of 130 knots gives a safe average consumption of 1030 lbs/hour, with adequate reserve.
Fossil fuel to the rescue!
Doubtless this will be spun as a result of increased glacier calving (caused by you know what) meaning more floating sea ice yada yada yada…
Yes I do, increased calving is generally caused by increased ice mass, not by melting – melted ice is what some people call water.
The punch is not to You, Admad, it is to the ignorant followers of climate scare.
Next thing you know they’ll be asking for it in anhydrous form.