[GOPJ]

AAE’s co-leader, Chris Fogwill, calls himself a “palaeo-climatologist working to answer the big questions surrounding climate change, melting ice sheets, and sea level rise.” The Melbourne Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt reported that 26 thrill-seeking tourists paid $8,000 to ride along. Another 20 climate scientists (besides Turney and Fogwill) were aboard, along with four journalists.

Did the 'four journalists' pay for their own trip OR was the deal 'positive stories in exchange for coverage that flatters'... It's time for Howard Kurtz to earn his payckeck and find out...

[pepsionice]

None of this type of travel is free, cheap, or reasonable.

I worked with a guy who wanted a once-in-a-life episode, so he pulled out around $25,000 for him and the wife to go to Australia, and ride out via some ship to the Antarctic.

For each of these journalists onboard....they ought to put on their stories where the ‘loot’ came from...to finance this trip of theirs. It might be interesting to have some journalism ethics on this type of travel.