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Man to live on melting iceberg for one year to urge climate change action
Tree Hugger ^ | August 23, 2014 | By Kimberley Mok

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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1 posted on 08/23/2014 12:23:20 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

May it grow and never melt. For his sake, may no polar bear visit him.


2 posted on 08/23/2014 12:24:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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

If he is on the wrong place at that moment, he will either be thrown off, or pinned beneath it.


3 posted on 08/23/2014 12:24:54 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
floating adrift until he is rescued.

If any part of your plan involves getting rescued, it's a stupid plan.

/johnny

4 posted on 08/23/2014 12:25:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Anyone give a rip? (crickets)


5 posted on 08/23/2014 12:26:26 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Brad from Tennessee

How can people afford to do things like this? Does he get sponsors? Does he work?


6 posted on 08/23/2014 12:26:40 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If he doesn’t win a Darwin Award, he at least should cop honorable mention.


7 posted on 08/23/2014 12:27:28 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: CondorFlight

shhh... and exactly...


8 posted on 08/23/2014 12:28:44 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Huskrrrr

He’d be lucky to find crickets up that direction.


9 posted on 08/23/2014 12:28:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Brad from Tennessee
He'd better be careful the ship taking him there doesn't get stuck in the ice, like that one did last year in Antarctica. They almost never got it out, in all that summer ice.

In directly related news, the volcanoes in Iceland are about to start acting up. Probably the ones under the Arctic ice cap, too. Might be some melting, but not from gloBULL warming.

Weenie in a Hybrid by 10 Pound Test

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

10 posted on 08/23/2014 12:28:49 PM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: johniegrad
He's a professional adventurer.


11 posted on 08/23/2014 12:32:02 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: CondorFlight

what’s the downside?


12 posted on 08/23/2014 12:32:38 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Another day,another idiot.The sun will rise tomorrow and nobody cares.


13 posted on 08/23/2014 12:32:53 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
al gore photo: al gore Iceberg.gif
14 posted on 08/23/2014 12:32:55 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Another day,another idiot.The sun will rise tomorrow and nobody cares.


15 posted on 08/23/2014 12:33:02 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Btw, I have no idea what that means.


16 posted on 08/23/2014 12:33:05 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I think all global warming (the only "climate change" they acknowledge) alarmists should consider doing this. It's a lose-lose proposition for them (that is, if the iceberg doesn't melt they fail to make their point; if the iceberg melts and they're cast into the freezing ocean they demonstrate their point, but they still lose ... something).

Doesn't sound like a well-thought out tactic to me; but then again, the late Mitch Hedberg once said, "I'm against protesting, but I don't know how to show it!"

17 posted on 08/23/2014 12:33:11 PM PDT by glennaro
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“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.”

The Grand lie. Total sea ice is near setting a record.


18 posted on 08/23/2014 12:34:42 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Some one ought to give him Joe Bastardi’s Weatherbell.com address so he can listen to what Joe has to say and for him to read Dr. Fred Singer’s columns


19 posted on 08/23/2014 12:35:25 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; All
FR: Hidden Volcanoes Melt Antarctic Glaciers from Below (I know, I know. Old news)
20 posted on 08/23/2014 12:35:59 PM PDT by Amendment10
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