Posted on 12/26/2014 5:44:35 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
That New Year’s Eve an interview with expedition leader Chris Turney was beamed live to Times Square in New York. Two days later, the rescue effort entered a new phase. With no icebreaker able to smash way through, a Chinese helicopter, Xue Ying, or “Snow Eagle”, rose into the air for the first of five flights to ferry passengers from the stricken ship to the Aurora Australis. A core crew remained behind to sail vessel home once conditions allowed.
Media interest in the expedition faded after the rescue, but in the year since Turney and his team have been busy. Scientific samples and measurements from the voyage are being turned into research papers that reveal striking changes at the southern ice cap. And rather than feeling discouraged about expeditions that are funded by paying passengers, Turney is more enthusiastic than ever.
“Once we got back home and made sure everyone was all right, we got on with working up the data and getting a whole load of papers ready for submission,” Turney said. Like the rescue mission, this involved plenty of waiting. “It took nearly six months to get all the samples through quarantine.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“Quick, can somebody give me a summary of the papers they are going to publish? Bonus points if you can condense their findings to ten words or less. “
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!
(Where are my bonus points?)
1. Global
2. Warming
3. is
4. real
5. and
6. we’re
7. all
8. going
9. to
10. die
I think I did see a big guy who looked something like James Arness in an alien outfit at the Walmart last week. But it was difficult to distinguish him from all the other weirdos at Walmart.
they should have left them there to rot!
Hey! This is not at all what Al Gore told us it would be:(
I didn’t see any warning worth a headline.
The iceberg event is simply nature at work.
Man is the only creature on earth to be vilified for doing what comes naturally.
Every animal and every plant on earth does the same thing in every active hour of life. It attempts to extend its habitat at the expense of every other animal and plant on earth that is doing the same thing. Some succeed for a while as others that formerly succeeded, fail. Nature is unforgiving, and has no interest in saving endangered species. Once a species has served its purpose, it goes away, replaced by an improved model. It’s almost like there is a plan.
It’s nature’s way.
How about 5?
1. Eat.
2. More.
3. Ov.
4. ull.
5. tine.
100%!!!
“I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.
Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet, if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible, there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheld photographs, both ordinary and aerial, will count in my favor, for they are damnably vivid and graphic. Still, they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can be carried. The ink drawings, of course, will be jeered at as obvious impostures, notwithstanding a strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over.
In the end I must rely on the judgment and standing of the few scientific leaders who have, on the one hand, sufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and over-ambitious program in the region of those mountains of madness. It is an unfortunate fact that relatively obscure men like myself and my associates, connected only with a small university, have little chance of making an impression where matters of a wildly bizarre or highly controversial nature are concerned.”
Quite a statement.
Freegards
Proving once again that Global Warming is caused by government grants to academics.
Well they wouldn’t really rot once the ship lost power.
Look out, a soil model says more plants means massive carbon stores might be freed
Gee....Which movie did you watch yesterday?
...for the 10th time.....
"The Global Warming is really bad this year."
"Oh-oh" 
“ten words or less”
Tinyowl, name that socialist goon!
Hopefully once the new Congress settles in next year Senator Jim Inhofe will be able to bring at least a little precaution and commen sense to those that shell out the tax payer’s monies on things such as this.
That’s the one.
I feel so sorry for anyone who saw “Alien” before they saw “The Thing”.
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