To be fair, the ship getting stuck had a lot more to do with winds than it did with the amount of ice around.
To be fair, these are the same people (AlGore) that said there would be no ice in the Arctic by 2013. Predicted in 2008 at a paid speech in Germany.
Paraphrased - “kid’s won’t know what snow is soon” Dr David Viner, Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia from a UK paper in March of 2000 - can’t link article here on FR due to copyright
Same article in 2000 - Professor Jarich Oosten, University of Leiden in the Netherlands, said snow would remain culturally important to man (even if we did not have any).
Same article (this one is funny) in 2000 - David Parker, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research said “”British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes - or eventually “feel” virtual cold.””
The list goes on and on of foolish predictions from idiots like this expedition leader. They shove every high temperature in our face as proof and deny every counter story. They use singular events like this to further their agenda.
You are probably right about the wind being key, but it is summer down there and they are the ones that tell us the ice is disappearing - they have told us this for decades. Al Gore and his merry band of frauds predicted there would be no ice because of man’s activities. That is the point FRiend.
Oh, I agree. It’s just that the way sea ice works is that when the wind shifts to onshore it will pile up the ice and you’re kind of screwed.
Wind directions and speeds are not even in theory to preduct such things.
However, if the winds had been offshore and they’d found less ice than the previous expedition, they would have trumpeted that as “proof” that AGW is real.
Since the opposite happened, it’s turnabout fair play to use their situation as “proof” AGW isn’t real.
My problem is that I’m incurably interested in the scientific truth, and that is that what happened to this expedition as opposed to the one a century ago tells us nothing at all about AGW’s accuracy.