Yesterday, Anthony Watts noted that the Australian ship, Aurora Australis, was having lots and lots of trouble with all that climate change ice, and had slowed to a crawl, with no open water in sight. Well, there’s a problem with the Chinese vessel, too
(Fox News) An Australian icebreaker carrying 52 passengers who were retrieved from an icebound ship in the Antarctic was told to halt its journey home on Friday after a Chinese vessel involved in the dramatic rescue became concerned that it, too, may get stuck in the heavy sea ice.
The icebreaker Aurora Australis had been slowly cracking through thick ice toward open water after a Chinese helicopter on Thursday plucked the passengers from their stranded Russian research ship and carried them to the Aurora.
But on Friday afternoon, the crew of a Chinese icebreaker that had provided the helicopter said they were worried about their own ship’s ability to move through the ice. The Aurora — which was carrying the passengers to the Australian island state of Tasmania — was told to stay in the area in case the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon needs help, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s Rescue Coordination Centre, which oversaw the rescue.
It really is like some sort of Monty Python sketch. Or, is that Benny Hill? Or maybe like MSNBC’s ratings? Anthony also notes something else: the idiot climatologists may be responsible for getting stuck in the ice
The real answer to that event lies in the blog of the Australian green politician on-board, Janet Rice. WUWT commenter Aphan gave us the scoop from her log on how the stage was set for getting stuck, because the passengers weren’t heeding the captain’s warning quickly enough. Clearly the captain knew what was coming, but the passengers were just too slow. He couldn’t abandon them, so he had to wait, and this delay put the ship in jeopardy.
The Warmists thought they would be able to make some sort of statement about how all the ice in Antarctica was melting and it was all the fault of Mankind, and did not take the weather seriously. Steven Goddard has data which shows a 60% increase in Antarctic ice since 1992.
If you’re interested in learning more about sea ice, here’s a primer.
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/characteristics/difference.html
If you’re more interested in subscribing to Alinsky Rule 5, keep reading the pirate.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1183
If you’re interested in reading about the continental ice sheets (they’re shrinking).
Mr. Pirate prefers to mislead you with irrelevant BS.
It is interesting that Jeffypop cites the National Snow and Ice Data Center for his first post and then moves away from it in his second post.
Why?
Because the NSIDC directly contradicts his second post.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html
Once again, we see that people like Jeffypop aren’t interesting in a discussion, but choose only to cheery pick data and sources and then run away from those sources when they contradict their beliefs.
There is no honesty in people like him.
Mapping detailed sea-ice coverage didn’t really begin until 1979 when they began using satellites. So, as is so often the case in global warming arguments, it comes down to the time frame observed. Only knowing in detail what’s been happening in the last 35 years really doesn’t give any trends either way when those two poles have been there for over 4 billion years.
[…] William Teach has been mocking this all along, and it will be pretty funny, as long as no one winds up getting killed behind this stupidity. […]
Jeff,
I am still waiting for that article that correlates CO2 with warming other than circumstantial evidence. Then I am waiting on an explanation of how destruction of our way of life will benefit the environment without the Russians, Chinese and Indians. By the way, why don’t these major brain trust believe in human induced climate change?
David – keep waiting. I am a tolerant man but refuse to treat seditionists, racists, sociopaths and pedophiles as members of our broad society. You fall into at least one of those categories. I will not recognize your rants.
Gutter – you are confused, or an abject liar, once again. The Antarctic sea ice is not the same as the massive, but shrinking, Antarctic ice sheet. The sea ice nearly disappears every southern summer and grows in winter. Antarctic sea ice extent is increasing, the Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking. Where in your citation is that fact refuted, you dirty old liar.
Jl – kudos for recognizing the approx age of our earth, instead of the oft quoted 6000-9000 yrs. Human civilization has developed during the past 12000 yrs or so, not 4 billion. During this period, the Holocene, the mean surface temperature estimate has varied no more than 1C and we will blast through that. The pirate tells you repeatedly that it’ been much warmer during the Holocene but neglects presenting valid evidence. It’s selfish I know, but climate realists are most concerned about the effects of human-generated climate change on humans.
JeffyPop wrote:
And:
So let’s see, a link on one site that shows the topic and then Jeffy moves away from that site shows I am liar.
You can’t make this type of comedic “logic” up. Well, you can, but you’d have to be a radical liberal who is unwilling and incapable of rational debate.
guttersnipe,
Alinsky Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
This is why you never argue issues. You have nothing to argue with, so you mock and ridicule.
Please explain how using two citations invalidates either one, you dishonest cretin.
This is why I prefer not to wallow in the mud with commenting swine. You make the pirate appear smart by comparison.