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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Not only that, he better bag all his waste! Which is sure to attract a polar bear.
And is father said he’d never amount to $hit!
the comments at that site are hilarious
You mean it wouldn't be absurd if bergs didn't overturn easily?
Whatever floats his crampons.
Wow - instead of Ebola, there seems to be an epidemic of stupid in the world today.
It would be a shame if he became bear poop like Timothy Treadwell.
Would it really be a shame? Especially if he didn’t a gun for protection.
He needs to vow to live on it UNTIL IT STARTS TO MELT.
Surely he is going to cook with solar power and not an evil manufactured fuel.
Note the face. This is prior to his mashed-potato injections.
It would be like Guam, but colder.
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.
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.
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.
The point you miss repeatedly is that they never ever flow toward the gulf.
To the polar bears he is going to look like an Hors d’oeuvre on an ice cube
I dare him to take the ice bucket challenge there.
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