Man to live on melting iceberg for one year to urge climate change action

Tree Hugger ^ | August 23, 2014 | By Kimberley Mok

[SgtHooper]

Not only that, he better bag all his waste! Which is sure to attract a polar bear.

[SgtHooper]

And is father said he’d never amount to $hit!

[GeronL]

the comments at that site are hilarious

[Steve Van Doorn]

He makes a living with the global warming scam writing books and videos:
https://twitter.com/AlexBellini1

[Age of Reason]

This is absurd, because bergs tend to overturn very easily as they melt and their shape changes.

You mean it wouldn't be absurd if bergs didn't overturn easily?

[Professional Engineer]

Whatever floats his crampons.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Wow - instead of Ebola, there seems to be an epidemic of stupid in the world today.

[KevinB]

It would be a shame if he became bear poop like Timothy Treadwell.

[Slyfox]

Would it really be a shame? Especially if he didn’t a gun for protection.

[GOPJ]

He needs to vow to live on it UNTIL IT STARTS TO MELT.

[Rockpile]

Surely he is going to cook with solar power and not an evil manufactured fuel.

[Arthur McGowan]

Note the face. This is prior to his mashed-potato injections.

[tinyowl]

It would be like Guam, but colder.

[RJS1950]

What is your point? The icebergs, like the one that hit the Titanic calve on the western coast of Greenland and float south with the stream into the Atlantic. The Titanic was hit in the North Atlantic and the bergs continue to travel south into warmer waters where they are completely melted along the way. The Titanic berg was thought to have probably made it another couple hundred miles before being completely melted. Some very large bergs can travel into the area of Bermuda. Only about 12% of icebergs calved from Greenland make it to the North Atlantic although the actual numbers spotted per year varies.

The Gulf Stream begins in the upper water layers in the North Atlantic about in the area where the Titanic was struck. One stream heads North and the others do go clockwise to the south where the steams break out again into regional patterns that follow coast lines and link up with the streams from the south and begin their deeper water travel to the north along the coastal trenches.

[Chode]

LOL... pretty much

[editor-surveyor]

My point is that the bergs are traveling away from the gulf, not toward it.

The Gulf Stream originates at Mexico’s southern border, and travels eastward and then northward out of the gulf.

[RJS1950]

The gulf stream might originate in the gulf but the bergs originate in Greenland (north) and flow SOUTH in the southerly flow of the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is a circuit, not a one-way flow. The bergs do not calve and then flow North to the Arctic ocean. They flow on the southerly circuit and melt as they float south into warmer waters.

[editor-surveyor]

The point you miss repeatedly is that they never ever flow toward the gulf.

[dennisw]

To the polar bears he is going to look like an Hors d’oeuvre on an ice cube

[a fool in paradise]

I dare him to take the ice bucket challenge there.