Posted on 01/08/2014 2:29:41 AM PST by Libloather
A Russian research ship and a Chinese icebreaker that were stranded in Antarctica have broken free from heavy ice and no longer need to be rescued by the United States, Australian officials said Wednesday.
More than 50 scientists, researchers and tourists had to be airlifted from the Russian-owned vessel Akademik Shokalskiy after it became trapped on Dec. 24, 100 nautical miles east of French Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville and about 1,500 nautical miles (2,250 miles) south of Tasmania, Australia.
The protracted international rescue effort was itself delayed by the conditions, with blinding snow, strong winds and thick sea ice preventing the airlift until Jan. 2.
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Are they still planning to plant trees, or just buy carbon credits from that fraud and huckster Algore.
‘Shackleton’s Frozen Hell’, on Smithsonian Channel.
Incredible story of being stuck in the Antarctic ice, circa 1914.
Watched it last night. Got frostbite just watching.
Puts these Akademik Shokalskiy pansies in perspective.
Here’s another reason for them to claim Global Warming caused it to be freed..... Bah!
So the media states that Polar vortex causes global cooling AND global warming. Which is it? Or is it both?
Time Mag Flashback: 1974 Issue Warns of Man-Made ‘Global Cooling’
By Greg Sheffield | July 24, 2006 | 09:48
“Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex”...
http://newsbusters.org/node/6546
Title should read; “Trapped (global warming) research ship, rescue vessel break free of Antarctic (summer) ice.” With a magically invented explanation of how this summer ice problem was caused by...wait for it...
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