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Ironic: Global Warmists Trapped in Ice

12/31/2013

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PictureMV Akademik Shokalskiy stuck in ice
WE're not celebrating their misfortune, and we hope they all get out okay, but this is just too ironic not to bring it to your attention:

Michelle Malkin notes on her blog, 

"Australian climate change professor Chris Turney, passengers and media hoping to get pictures penguins windsurfing where ice should be set out on an expedition to demonstrate the effects of global warming on Antarctica. The ship and all on board have now been trapped in ice for almost a week and counting".

Climate scientists are still trying to prove the Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis, evidently after having missed the memo that the Earth hasn't warmed for some fifteen to seventeen years. Some climate scientists are even predicting a cooling trend. Nature seems to abhor an agenda even more than it abhors a vacuum. 


PicturePenguin not doing the backstroke
The Daily Mail Online reports, 

"The Academic Shokalskiy set off from New Zealand on November 28 to recreate a 100-year-old Australasia expedition first sailed by Sir Douglas Mawson to see how the journey changes using new technology and equipment.

But on Wednesday morning, the boat hit a mass of thick ice sheets and today remains at a stand still.

Chris Turney, an Australian professor who helped organise the voyage on the Russian ship, yesterday posted a photograph on Twitter apparently showing the Chinese vessel, a speck on the horizon beyond an expanse of ice."


In the Antarctic summer of 1912, this same waterway was not encumbered by ice:

WE wonder if the Turney expedition got some bad information, or if the weather suddenly turned colder than expected for Antarctic summers in the 21st century. Although WE understand that weather and climate are not the same thing, the irony isn't lost on us either. 

(Read the Michelle Malkin article...) (Read the Mail Online article... -- nice pictures!)
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Don Easterbrook
12/31/2013 11:47:54 pm

It gets even more ironic and funny--the ship radioed to several well-known skeptics (John Coleman, who started the Weather Channel; Anthony Watts, Watts up with That; Joe D'Aleo, Weatherbell) for help with forecasting the weather at the ship. Take a look at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/31/wuwt-and-weatherbell-help-kusi-tv-with-a-weather-forecasting-request-from-ice-trapped-ship-in-antarctica-akademik-shokalskiy/#more-100200.

The irony is too good to ignore, (although the major news media are doing their best). The purpose of the expedition was to take a group of journalists and paying tourists to the Antarctic to show that the Antarctic was melting and write about how much change has taken place since the Sir Douglas Mawson voyage in 1913. The new expedition was led by Prof. Chris Turney, a publicity-hungry professor of climate change at Australia’s University of New South Wales. What Turney didn't bother to look into is that Antarctic ice is increasing, not melting (the average annual temp is -58 F), and is at an all-time high. Also worth noting is that this is Antarctic summer.

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Don Easterbrook
1/1/2014 02:52:03 am

Here is data for the record-breaking ice in Antarctica.

The highest maximum for Antarctic sea Ice extent of all time was set on October 1st 2013.

The highest average anomaly for a year occurred in 2013. 2013 averaged 850,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.

In 2013, the highest extent ever in each month occurred in July, August, September, October and November.

2013 now has the 2nd highest number of daily records (behind 2008). 2013 also has by far the most “Top 2″ days in a year. Only 1979 is left in the list of daily records from before 2000.

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