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1 posted on 05/28/2007 10:10:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Well isn’t that special.


2 posted on 05/28/2007 10:11:26 AM PDT by samtheman
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I thought this was going to be about Ted Kennedy.

Nevermind.

3 posted on 05/28/2007 10:13:43 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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There is something very odd about this man. This would kill your average person in a few minutes, if that long.


4 posted on 05/28/2007 10:14:25 AM PDT by CheyennePress
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Such a swim would have been impossible as little as 10 years ago because the water would have been frozen, Pugh says.

Not true but I suspect he knows this. When I was in elemenary school we learned about the shifting ice and how cracks (Leads) open and close all the time.
5 posted on 05/28/2007 10:14:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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“”Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer,” said Pugh, “

Duhhhh!

Who’da thought ice MELTS in the SUMMER.


7 posted on 05/28/2007 10:16:09 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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What about “shrinkage?”


8 posted on 05/28/2007 10:17:09 AM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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Such a swim would have been impossible as little as 10 years ago because the water would have been frozen, Pugh says.

"Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh, who set the record for the coldest human swim off Antarctica at 0 degrees Celsius.

Ah, the sound of the clueless elitist...who while proclaiming that most people have no idea that you can find patches of open water at the North Pole, also doesn't realize himself that it's not simply a recent development.

9 posted on 05/28/2007 10:17:36 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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This article sounds like it's phase 1 of a Darwin Alert post.

He'll probably be devoured by a polar bear.

10 posted on 05/28/2007 10:18:00 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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He probably freeze to death.


11 posted on 05/28/2007 10:21:17 AM PDT by freekitty
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Teddy is going north?


14 posted on 05/28/2007 10:35:12 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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"A British adventurer." ROTFL!

It must be nice to not have to work for a living like the rest of us.

15 posted on 05/28/2007 10:36:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Mexico! The number one importer of poverty to the United States.)
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I think this guy should prepare first by reducing his carbon footprint dramatically.

Easy and free, and it is even carbon-credit neutral! Bang head faster for more power.

17 posted on 05/28/2007 10:38:24 AM PDT by M203M4 (What I wanna see is a pro-war ("kill the bastards") Ron Paul. Pacifism is suicide.)
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Ah, swimmers! The 'other white meat'!

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21 posted on 05/28/2007 10:44:22 AM PDT by TommyDale (More Americans are killed each day in the U.S. by abortion than were killed on 9/11 !)
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Stupidity is deadly.


23 posted on 05/28/2007 10:48:09 AM PDT by agent_delta
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17 years ago in April (not July), we had an exercise in the arctic, which included trips over the pole. There were plenty of leads open in the ice then.

In fact, we had to go rescue some Norwegians who thought it would be great fun to walk to the pole. The ice broke up enough where they panicked and called for help.


24 posted on 05/28/2007 10:50:20 AM PDT by ex-NFO
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It’s Deja Vu again. A few years ago one of the major newspapers (New York Times?) ran a hysterical article announcing that open water has been seen at the North Pole. Later they ran a correction stating that not only has it happened before but it has happened quite frequently over recorded history.
26 posted on 05/28/2007 11:00:11 AM PDT by Dan Evans
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Polar Bear Club and groupies do this every year in Lake George, NY. They’re not in the water for very long, that’s for sure.


27 posted on 05/28/2007 11:00:23 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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"I can't think of a better way to show that climate change is a reality than by swimming in a place that should be totally frozen over."

That's nothing! I can top that! I can walk around West Texas where there use to be ocean!

29 posted on 05/28/2007 11:20:34 AM PDT by avacado
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Every now and again, there are melt ponds at the north pole. Usually they are only about 6 inches deep.

There is a north pole webcam if you want to watch the progress of this year's north pole melt. I don't trust the enhanced-software-generated graphics from the satellites that have been put out by the global warming crowd. I only trust real pictures or my own two eyes now.

North Pole Webcam

Looks pretty cold at the north pole today.


30 posted on 05/28/2007 11:54:17 AM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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"Most people have no idea that you can find patches of open sea at the North Pole in summer," said Pugh,

Not since the Northwest Passage froze over at the beginning of the Little Ice Age. It's getting back to what it was, although who knows if the trend will continue until the Northwest Passage is open again.

38 posted on 05/28/2007 12:25:22 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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