and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/07/2009 6:23:43 PM PDT by naturalman1975
An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.
Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds of 68mph (109km/h).
All three are reportedly exhausted but safe on board the Overseas Yellowstone.
Mr Surcouf, 40, from Jersey, Mr Spink, 31, and Mr Stoddart, 43, from Bristol, are due to arrive in the USA on 8 May.
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the ultimate irony.
You can’t make this stuff up!
Thank you God!
Gotta love the irony.
They planned to refrain from exhaling for 5,000 miles?
Well, the story did say they were exhausted...
LOL ping
I'm irony-ed out, myself.
The expedition was followed by up to 40 schools across the UK to promote climate change awareness.
But atrocious weather dogged their journey after 27 April, culminating with the rescue on 1 May after the boat was temporarily capsized three times by the wind.
In one incident Mr Stoddart hit his head and the wind generator and solar panels were ripped from the yacht.
I wonder if he got a little sense knocked into him.
sail and man power
Brilliant. Let's go back to the way they did things in Roman times. With all the Green laws and policies there should be plenty of slaves pretty soon.
Best laugh I’ve had all day. LOL
Is that a pun “Gore”d A$$?
And let’s not mention the other end of the “pipe” from whence spews other greenhouse gases.
is now...
My second best laugh of the day.
I had a conversation earlier in the day with a commercial fisherman who likes Obama (and knows I don’t) about the State of California offering new “green” engines to all the fishing boats there....Something about getting new engines for 25% of the cost because these new engines are eco-friendly. I said something like, but don’t you have a great Caterpiller engine that you know is reliable and what do you know about these new engines? Would you like to be stalled in the middle of Bristol Bay with an eco-friendly engine that broke? He thought that would not happen.....I think he should find out before he puts his livelihood in the green engine basket.
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