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Mystery Ice Traps Global Warmists
A late present from under the tree: it seems a team of climate change-ologists went to Antarctica to document the disappearing ice cap, and were trapped by lots and lots of ice. From The Guardian:
At the beginning of December, Guardian journalists Alok Jha and Lawrence Topham set out on board the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, joining the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014, which commemorates the 100-year anniversary of Sir Douglas Mawson’s voyage to the region.
But their journey took a turn for the unexpected when their research vessel became trapped in Antarctic ice over Christmas.
That’s the in-ironic version. For a funnier — and more meaningful — take, here’s Frontpage:
The Antarctic ice was unaware that the science was settled… and settled in place instead trapping Tuney and his media Warmist allies in its Climate Change denier grip.
The metaphor just couldn’t be more fitting: desperate true believers of global warming/accelerating polar ice melt now find themselves trapped by thousands of square kilometers of summertime sea ice that wasn’t supposed to be there.
No picture could better symbolize and communicate the intellectual bankruptcy and disillusionment of a faithful group who refuse to believe they have been led astray. This has to be deeply embarrassing, if not outright humiliating.
Christmas keeps coming!
Published in General
Tim Blair is keeping tabs from Australia. Rescue ships are also trapped. http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/ice_block/
If only we could get the ice to extend and surround politicians’ heads, too.
Then we’d be onto something. Instead, they’re still peddling it as hard as they ever have. Let’s get prepared, people!
Schadenfreude!
Remember, it will be worse in 6 months when the Antarctic winter begins.
It appears flying machines will be needed to rescue the scientists hoist on their own petard. In the past, blunders of this magnitude saw the survivors dying one by one. “I’ll be gone for a short time,” was the classic line as the English toff left the shelter and stepped into the raging storm, never to be seen again.
On the Sixth Day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Six feet of thick Antarctic Ice.
No doubt Australian taxpayers will be footing the bill for the rescue.
In a sane world the the warmists would be left to their own devices and the sane could run a pool on how many days would elapse before they resorted to cannibalism.
That’s just cold.
The climate-change-ologists can now only be disproved if global climate remains static. So unexpected fluctuations in the ice-caps prove their theories.
Climate change has made global warming theories irony-proof.
If the elements appear to support climate change (which used to be called global warming), then … it is scientific evidence.
If the elements appear NOT to support climate change , then … we Neanderthals are lectured that it’s just “weather” and a single data point.
Those data points keep lining up, don’t they?
The Lord is such a prankster.
I wonder if they’ll be attacked by endangered polar bears migrating from the Arctic.
I don’t think they see the humor. A humorless lot they.
Climate change is like weather change, it always is and always has. Saying it and sounding panicked is the posturing of a fool.
Was Al Gore on that ship? As I recall, for a while there, every time he was scheduled to give a climate change speech, the event was cancelled due to snow.
Will climate change “science” ever go away? Or are we doomed to be plagued with warmists hectoring us until the endtimes?
Ernest Shackleton, please pick up the white courtesy phone…
Beautiful. And you’ve settled the debate I’ve been having with myself for the last 20 minutes on this eve of New Year’s Eve: my dram this evening will be on the rocks.
BF,
Hungry endangered polar bears I hope.
I know it’s too much to ask but is there any chance of just leaving them there till spring?
Regards,
Jim
No chance that they’ll have to eat each other? That would seem to solve a lot of problems right there.
What a beautiful new year story!
Lovely, just lovely, and I suggest that here on Ricochet, we follow Tim Blair’s example and call them “warmenists.” It’s ever so much enjoyable.