The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice [Green Arctic Expedition Watch]

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 3/21/09 | Christopher Booker

[melt]

What a wonderful parable of our time has been the expedition to the North Pole led by the explorer Pen Hadow. With two companions, he is measuring the thickness of the ice to show how fast it is “declining”. His expedition is one of a series of events designed to “raise awareness of the dangers of climate change” before December’s conference in Copenhagen, where the warmists hope to get a new treaty imposing much more drastic cuts on CO2 emissions.

Hadow’s Catlin Arctic Project has top-level backing from the likes of the BBC, the WWF (it could “make a lasting difference to policy-relevant science”) and Prince Charles (“for the sake of our children and grandchildren, I pray that we will heed the results of the Catlin Arctic Survey and I can only commend this remarkably important project”).

With perfect timing, the setting out from Britain of the “Global Warming Three” last month was hampered by “an unusually heavy snowfall”. When they were airlifted to the start of their trek by a twin-engine Otter (one hopes a whole forest has been planted to offset its “carbon footprint”), they were startled to find how cold it was. The BBC dutifully reported how, in temperatures of minus 40 degrees, they were “battered by wind, bitten by frost and bruised by falls on the ice”.

Thanks to the ice constantly shifting, it was “disheartening”, reported Hadow, to find that “when you’ve slogged for a day”, you can wake up next morning to find you have “drifted back to where you started’’. Last week, down to their last scraps of food, they were only saved in the nick of time by the faithful Otter. They were disconcerted to see one of those polar bears, threatened with extinction by global warming...

[melt]

EPITAPH: The unfortunate Mr Hadow never thought he'd need snowshoes for his "carbon footprints".

[cameraeye]

Hahahah, what a bunch of fools. No sympathy for people who cause us all great harm trying to make the hoax real. Anyway, God is pretty funny....blizzard......hahahah

[2banana]

Mr Nicholson had fallen out with his colleagues over his attempts to reduce the company’s “carbon footprint”. The tribunal chairman David Neath found the company guilty of discriminating against Mr Nicholson under the 2006 Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, because his faith in global warming was a “philosophical belief”. Recalling how “eco-psychologists’’ at the University of the West of England are pressing for “climate denial” to be classified as a form of “mental disorder”, one doubts whether the same legal protection would be given to those who fail to share Mr Nicholson’s “philosophical belief”.

What a looney wanker!

[Always Right]

It would have been quite ironic if 40 global warming whackos froze to death trying to measure global warming.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Life is tough. It’s a lot tougher when you’re stupid.”

[cripplecreek]

Surreal life.

[centurion316]

A scientific expedition that announced the results of their research before they collected their first set of data. That methodology is emmensly helpful in that it obviates the need to come back over many years to this miserably cold and desolate wilderness to collect additonal sets of data with which to compare and thereby confirm or deny their hypothesis. See, isn’t Global Warming science so much easier than those tired old standard methods of research.

[BallyBill]

We should parachute that NASA Whacko Hansen in to save them.

Currahee!

[Kozak]

Too bad they didn’t have a “Grizzly Man” moment with the Polar bears....

[cripplecreek]

You’ve been watching Band of brothers too.

[DariusBane]

Silly Twigs, Scientist are for labs, not trekking about in the bloody ice.

[melt]

The struggle against human-caused "Global Warming" marches right along...

[incredulous joe]

“they were startled to find how cold it was”

[FlingWingFlyer]

...to be fed into a computer model in California run by Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, whose team, according to the BBC, “is well known for producing results that show much faster ice-loss than other modelling teams”.

ROTFL! I'll bet BO will be giving Wieslaw and his computer models a pretty healthy grant for their outstanding "work."

[randog]

Pen Hadow—Official Wanker.

[incredulous joe]

Who could have known that crisis-mongering would be such difficult work. Maybe he’ll have some fingers left to type the book.

[cripplecreek]

The least he could have done is had a webcast set up so we could all watch.

[Fiddlstix]

Memo To Pen Hadow:

Click the Pic

[incredulous joe]

Get a job, ya stupid hippies!!

[steelyourfaith]

 

The Gore Effect
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• GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE

  Mon Jan 26 2009 17:59:26 ET

  Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the 'urgent need' to combat global warming.

  But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings.

  A 'Winter Storm Watch' has been posted for the nation's capitol and there is a potential for significant snow... sleet... or ice accumulations.

  "I can't imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside," a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. "And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel."

  A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the committee, was not immediately available to comment on contingency plans.

  Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change.

  Developing...

• HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM (Drudge Report ) February 13, 2007
• March 1, 2007 --- Minnesota Public Radio's "Global Warming: The Home Front" scheduled for March 1 was cancelled due to insufficient global warming ("based on current travel advisories ").
• March 7, 2007 --- A Congressional subcommittee meeting on Energy and Air Quality Hearing on "Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?" was cancelled due to a snow advisory. "A SNOW ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING."

  Recall that greenhouse hypothesis maintains that warming due to increases in the greenhouse effect is anticipated to be greatest in the winter.

• Frostbite, equipment damage end latest Bancroft-Arnesen trek

  PATRICK CONDON
  Associated Press
  March 12, 2007

  MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.

  What follows is a sampling of how Mother Nature enjoys ridiculing promoters of the global warming scam.
  
  • The Gore Effect: Politico, November 2008
  
  • First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated: Register, October 2008
  
  • Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington - Senate committee debates expensive climate change bill as snow blankets D.C.:

• First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated: Register, October 2008
  
  
• Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington - Senate committee debates expensive climate change bill as snow blankets D.C.: Business and Media, December 2007
  
  
• HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM: Drudge Report, February 2007
  
  
• NOT AGAIN! DC 'Snow Advisory' Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing: Times, March 2007
  
  
• Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC: WND, December 2006
  
  
• Gore delivers environmental message at Harvard ...with near 125-year record breaking low temps: MOTLS, October 2008
  
  
• Global warming activists urged to focus on Earth Day rallies and ignore snow as it 'piles up outside our windows': Alarmism, April 17, 2007
  
  
• No Joke! Cyclists 'braved freezing cold temps' to promote global warming awareness in New York: WKTV, October 22, 2008
  
  
• Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow: Baltimore Sun, January 2008
  
  
• Global warming rally in the snow: Alarmism, April 2007
  
  
• Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies: Live Daily, April 2007
  
  
• Brrrr - Obama to global warming demonstrators: 'This is probably not the weather to hold up those signs...it's a little chilly today', Space Daily, October 28, 2008
  
  
• Global Warming Awareness Walk Braves Snow Storm: Nashua Telegraph, March 2007
  
  
• The Gore Effect, Cont. - Gore speaks in Italy during 'rare' cold and snow: Planet Gore
  
  
• Climate protest canceled 'due to rain and cold': Telegraph (Australia), Nov. 23, 2008
  
  
• Penguin Ice Sculptures refuse to melt 1997

• Three British explorers trying to ski to the North Pole to measure the thickness of sea ice only have one day's food left as bad weather hampers supply flights March 17, 2009