Posted on 03/12/2007 2:27:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Global Warming Expedition to North Pole Cancelled Due to Cold and Frostbite Posted by Noel Sheppard on March 12, 2007 - 16:53.
Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. However, I sincerely beg all readers to properly stow potables, combustibles, and sharp objects before proceeding further.
An expedition to the North Pole to bring attention to global warming was cancelled due to the extraordinarily cold weather. I kid you not. As reported by the Associated Press Monday (emphasis mine throughout):
The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
"Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
I’m verklempt, and having difficulty typing through the tears of laughter. But, unlike our intrepid explorers, I must go on for the benefit of mankind:
Then there was the cold - quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.
"My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said.
How cold was it? :
She said Bancroft and Arnesen were applying hot water bottles to Arnesen's foot every night, but had to wake up periodically because the bottles froze.
Ouch. That’s cold! Marvelously, it was much colder then Bancroft’s trip 21 years ago:
The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek across the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.
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Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.
"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
Yep. It was soooooo cold up there because of global warming.
Talk amongst yourselves, for I’m having trouble breathing and might need medical attention!
>"But one of the things we see with global warming is
>unpredictability." .
Global warming is unfalsifiable.
58 below INSIDE the tent
bump
It is -5 this afternoon and expected to be -25 in the morning. This will continue for the rest of the week.
Fear ye not me ... which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Jeremiah 5:22
K-k-k-koo, KA-CHOO ... Mrs. Robinson
Irony ping.
"It is -5 this afternoon and expected to be -25 in the morning. This will continue for the rest of the week.'
You want proof of global warming come to Tampa. Its been in the low 80s here. Gets real warm at the beach with all those bikinis this spring break time of year.
Actually, that term has been around quite awhile, as has "the Goracle", and "Saint Gore"...
It's -24 this morning.
That whole greening, back to nature, living in the wild, out among the tundra certain lost it's appeal real fast.
> "This reminds me of the old urban legend to the effect that hot water will freeze faster than cold water, when put into ice trays and placed in a freezer."
Actually, a thin layer of hot water will freeze faster in sub-freezing temps than cold water. But I don't think the geometries support that conclusion for ice-cubed shaped volumes of water, so the conventional wisdom applies there.
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