Eco-warriors stranded in the Antarctic! It’s too good to be true (Mark Steyn)

The Spectator ^ | January 8 2014 | Mark Steyn

[xp38]

Yes, yes, just to get the obligatory ‘of courses’ out of the way up front: of course ‘weather’ is not the same as ‘climate’; and of course the thickest iciest ice on record could well be evidence of ‘global warming’, just as 40-and-sunny and a 35-below blizzard and 12 degrees and partly cloudy with occasional showers are all apparently manifestations of ‘climate change’; and of course the global warm-mongers are entirely sincere in their belief that the massive carbon footprint of their rescue operation can be offset by the planting of wall-to-wall trees the length and breadth of Australia, Britain, America and continental Europe.

But still: you’d have to have a heart as cold and unmovable as Commonwealth Bay ice not to be howling with laughter at the exquisite symbolic perfection of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition ‘stuck in our own experiment’, as they put it.

[xp38]

Steyn as usual without peer.

[Nachoman]

This was chock full of gems. I especially liked, "... every professor of climatology knows that the thickest ice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness-raising rapper Ice Sheet…".

[Baynative]

This reminds me of the incident a few years ago when there was a disease killing Elk in Yellowstone. Rangers and wildlife managers felt that the whole herd could be wiped out of the sickened Elk weren't destroyed so they spent days herding the animals into a canyon where they could be shot.

Some PETA types decided to hike in from the back and disrupt the action so the diseased Elk could be set free before the hunt. But, during their hike in the back country they were mauled by a Grizzly.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I got a good chuckle out of that one myself.

[ETL]

LOL. I could hear his voice as I was reading it, British accent and all.

[Inyo-Mono]

Great story.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Revolting cat!]

“warm-mongers”. Yeay!

[Carriage Hill]

Classic Steyn!

[driftless2]

Didn’t the PETAsses try to counsel the grizzly about its awful habit of eating meat? I’m sure the grizzly would have been open to reason. (snicker)

[Slings and Arrows]

Steyn ping!

[GeronL]

and let us not forget this was summer down there

[A_Former_Democrat]

He’s DAMN good

[Conservative4Ever]

*warm mongers* and voyage of the gored...bwahahahahaha....steyn is the best.

[Paladin2]

e.g.

"‘Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips.’ Now there’s a man who’s serious about reducing his footprint."

[Antihero101607]

To bad stupidity doesn’t off these people fast enough to make extinction a possibility.

[Paladin2]

No, THIS is the best:

"But don’t worry; every sex scene is peer-reviewed."

[redhead]

bumping...

[Gene Eric]

Steyn is great! Who cannot hear the sound of his sprightly voice while reading this article...

[TigersEye]

ecopalypse ecopalyptic

Steynisms that could really stick.