Super Dave Osborn.
If the Iceland volcano obliterates incoming sunlight as expected, the guy soul probably walk home on new ice.
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. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at treehugger.com ...
One can only win if one does not survive the event. We can only hope.
anyone want to bet an “unexpectedly” cold winter will drive him off early and possibly result in his needing rescue?
lol
LOL...guessing that’s what really happens.
Well I for one think it’s great he cares so much about the planet.....So what’s he going to do with his body waste and food garbage for a year??
Of course he can live on one near Antarctica and it would get *bigger* as time went on!
He probably will choose a frozen sea ice berg rather than one calved from a glacier. Those tend to be basically the same thickness all over and much more stable.
Super Dave Osborn.
If the Iceland volcano obliterates incoming sunlight as expected, the guy soul probably walk home on new ice.
Has anyone told him that polar bears swim looonnng distances?
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Not certain how old he is right now but my money is on he won't live to be 50 years old...........
Gotta have REAL butter on mine. I'm not into eating chemicals. remind me of the:
Number One Rule of Chemistry: NEVER LICK THE SPOON
I hope he gets a “polaroid” (condition caused by sitting too long on and iceberg).
Popcorn demands butter! So does Jersey corn. And fresh Jersey tomatoes.
All with a touch of salt.
I have a high blood pressure controlled by some medication.
I figure we might as well enjoy ourselves.
None of us are getting out of this alive.
I had a BLT with some potato salad for dinner!
“Provisioned with with 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of dried food, Bellini will shelter in a survival capsule,”
Hmm...since the ocean is salt water, won’t that mean he’s going to have to melt some of his glacier “home” in order to fix dinner every night? Seems a little counter-intuitive to me.
“A shelter capsule, the Kevlar-reinforced kind used for ocean oil rigs”
Hoo-boy, I can only imagine the funk after living in one of those for a year.
“Bellini’s technical equipment will be powered by a rowing contraption that will convert his muscular energy into electricity.”
Let’s hope he doesn’t need to use the radio to get care for a dislocated shoulder.
There’s more ice, not less.
In any case, the guy's another looking to be the subject of a Werner Herzog movie, as in Timothy Treadwell of the different sort of food movie, "Dining on Two", aka "Grizzly Man".
Can we give him the Darwin award now and not have to wait for the lying media to hype the farce?
Send him fire!
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