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 ...
Anyone want to take up a collection to run a polar bear attractant test. It seems we have a volunteer.
Julia Butterfly Hill, 3 years in a tree. Changed the world. har har har
http://www.treehugger.com/culture/julia-butterfly-hill-activism-is-patriotism.html
Dunce!
His choice!
Perhaps then Jean Kerrie will use his yacht for the "rescue" ...
He’d better have stupidity insurance when he needs to pay for his rescue.
You left out “Hold muh beer...”
Give dat bear a coke.
>> “ The berg that hit the Titanic was gone by the time it reached the gulf.” <<
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The gulf stream flows clockwise sir...
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putting the MENTAL in environmental.
Need to put a nice cuddly Polar Bear on the ice with him.
here it comes to save the day!!! 
Him, floating on an iceberg out in the middle of nowhere. Me on my boat similarly situated, taking some target practice, no one around... Such happy thoughts!
I think I see what this haiku stuff is all about now. I could almost write one.
Here’s hoping for a polar vortex!
Good luck with that. Say hi to the polar bears for us.
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