[Brad from Tennessee]

According to Watts Up with that? blog: The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

[Slyfox]

Time to send in the U.S.S.R. ALGORE:

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ll bet that they are praying for some of the global warming now.

[SamAdams76]

That’s okay, with “global warming” and all, it shouldn’t be much longer before all the ice melts and they can then float into the Caribbean with all the displaced polar bears. Let’s just airdrop them some bathing suits and sun screen.

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say man who sail boat on ice put on ice

[fso301]

The Australian icebreaker is the same class ship as the Chinese breaker. I don’t see the Australian breaker having any more success than the Chinese.

[Navy Patriot]

Hopefully, all the Globull Warmers on board will freeze to death.

[Moose Burger]

I suppose there’s a chinese phrase for “And do you call yourself an icebreaker?”

[PeteB570]

Good thing it’s summertime down there - otherwise the ice would be thicker.

[beethovenfan]

That GoreBull Warming is a bitch.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

It's working so well, we're all going to freeze to death.

[Sacajaweau]

Trapped by their own stupidity.

[Iron Munro]

According to reports the global warming is over 10 feet thick and hard as ice.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Ironically, in 2012, Russia contracted to build it most powerful ever nuclear icebreaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker

Truthfully, the US needs to design and build a “next generation” nuclear icebreaker. An awful lot of R&D goes into icebreakers.

[SeaHawkFan]

"Xue Long is not moving forward but we're not stuck."

It's just a flesh wound.

[cardinal4]

Define irony: global warming enthusiasts iced in trying to prove the existence of global warming..

[Laslo Fripp]

I don’t know why the Chinese break up the ice.

It just comes back in an hour.

[dr_lew]

Here's the MODIS Terra view from yesterday.

They're somewhere in the ice pack at top center of the view. Further down along the right side, you can see McMurdo obscured by clouds. You can see the "dry valleys" adjacent to the base, which appear as a brownish smudge.

You can click on the smaller pixel sizes in the panel at the left to get higher resolution raw images.

[zot]

And this is SUMMER in the Antarctic! It looks like we have already stopped glow-bull warming by removing too much CO2 from the atmosphere.

[Venturer]

The Chinese say they are not stuck, but if you cannot move forward and cannot back up. You are stuck.

Ice has a habit of freezing in behind you.

[Paladin2]

Easy Peazzy.