Posted on 08/23/2014 12:23:20 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Crazy publicity stunt or stroke of daring genius? We're not sure, but it got our attention. The man pictured above is Alex Bellini, a professional adventurer and motivational speaker who plans to live alone on a melting iceberg off the coast of Greenland for one year, to emphasize the urgent need for climate change action.
This bold one-man campaign comes at a time when a chorus of scientists, organizations and policymakers continue to warn about the accelerating loss of Arctic ice.
Thus, extreme circumstances seem to call for extreme measures, but for this former finance student from northern Italy who has already run 23,000 kilometres (14,291 miles) of marathons, rowed solo across the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans, this new project seems even more extreme.
Starting in spring of 2015, Bellini plans to find a suitable iceberg in the northwest region of Greenland, where he will remain for up to a year as it slowly melts. Provisioned with with 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of dried food, Bellini will shelter in a survival capsule, the Kevlar-reinforced kind used for ocean oil rigs, until it becomes too risky -- at which point he will take to the sea in the capsule, floating adrift until he is rescued. . .
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May it grow and never melt. For his sake, may no polar bear visit him.
This is absurd, because bergs tend to overturn very easily as they melt and their shape changes.
If he is on the wrong place at that moment, he will either be thrown off, or pinned beneath it.
If any part of your plan involves getting rescued, it's a stupid plan.
/johnny
Anyone give a rip? (crickets)
How can people afford to do things like this? Does he get sponsors? Does he work?
If he doesn’t win a Darwin Award, he at least should cop honorable mention.
shhh... and exactly...
He’d be lucky to find crickets up that direction.
In directly related news, the volcanoes in Iceland are about to start acting up. Probably the ones under the Arctic ice cap, too. Might be some melting, but not from gloBULL warming.
Weenie in a Hybrid by 10 Pound Test
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
what’s the downside?
Another day,another idiot.The sun will rise tomorrow and nobody cares.
Another day,another idiot.The sun will rise tomorrow and nobody cares.
Btw, I have no idea what that means.
Doesn't sound like a well-thought out tactic to me; but then again, the late Mitch Hedberg once said, "I'm against protesting, but I don't know how to show it!"
“This bold one-man campaign comes at a time when a chorus of scientists, organizations and policymakers continue to warn about the accelerating loss of Arctic ice.”
The Grand lie. Total sea ice is near setting a record.
Some one ought to give him Joe Bastardi’s Weatherbell.com address so he can listen to what Joe has to say and for him to read Dr. Fred Singer’s columns
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