January 02, 2014

Surprise: 98% of Reports on the Ice-Bound Antarctic Expedition Fail to Mention They Were Researching "Global Warming"
— Ace

There are some things you're just not allowed to say, some Sacred Writs too holy to undermine with so much as an "ironically enough."

The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.

In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming.

Chris Turney, the expedition’s leader, is a professor of climate change at the University of South Wales. According to Turney’s personal website, the purpose of the expedition is to “discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

...

According to Fox News, Turney admitted “we’re stuck in our own experiment.” They reported on Dec. 30, that a statement from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said, “Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up.”

An alleged news story from a Canadian paper calls those noting the irony of this situation "climate-change deniers."

ut the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which sought to retrace the steps famous Australian Antarctic geologist Douglas Mawson tread 100 years ago to see how the landscape had changed, was also mocked by climate-change deniers making hay of the fact that a group of researchers devoted to tracking global warming would get stuck in ice they claim is melting.

"Making hay" now includes "noting obvious ironies."

Something this writer herself did-- she is one of the very few reporters to note the irony of the situation. First paragraph:

Fused between thick sheets of Antarctic ice after numerous failed international rescue efforts, the ship full of climate-change scientists could have spent New Year’s Eve despairing the dicey — and ironic — situation in which they’d found themselves.

But you mustn't laugh too much at the New Gods. They will get angry, and throw a hurricane at you.

Posted by: Ace at 10:15 AM | Comments (323)
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1 I thought only Bush 43 could control hurricanes...

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 02, 2014 10:17 AM (ND9u8)

2 Is it still irony when the occurrence is totally 100% predictable?

Posted by: Mega at January 02, 2014 10:18 AM (hHFOx)

3
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.....

Posted by: The Barrel at January 02, 2014 10:18 AM (nELVU)

4 Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 02, 2014 02:17 PM (ND9u It's all conservatives. Our thought powers bring about bad weather, just like it can ruin websites and make math evil.

Posted by: AMDG at January 02, 2014 10:19 AM (t7OO0)

5 My favorite passenger reference is "scientists," because irony within irony.

Posted by: Filly at January 02, 2014 10:19 AM (gr/p1)

6 I wonder if bringing an Orgone Cloudbuster along would've helped.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:20 AM (V4CBV)

7 I assume the russian ship is frozen in place, for the rest of time. Perhaps a monument.

Posted by: redenzo at January 02, 2014 10:20 AM (WCnJW)

8 Wait a sec. If "sea ice is disappearing" then how did the ship get stuck in ice? Since it's, ya know, in the ocean... Answer me that one.

Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at January 02, 2014 10:20 AM (NSh5j)

9 The earth went from hadean to snowballs and has cycled countless times since without any human involvement. Who, exactly, is the climate-change denier? The earth appears to be cooling fairly dramatically based on the massive Winter Arctic refreezing since 2007 and hundreds of new all-time low temperature records in cold places.

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 10:21 AM (sOtz/)

10 I liked how it was up to WUWT to provide them with weather forecasts. I guess climate really isnÂ’t weather, and never the twain shall meet.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2014 10:21 AM (WX3R9)

11 Yeah, they might also have noted that it is high summer in Antarctica.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 02, 2014 10:22 AM (QXlbZ)

12 They will get angry, and throw a hurricane at you. Still waiting for the catastrophic hurricane season that's been predicted forÂ….well, how many years is it now?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 10:22 AM (JpFMR)

13
Please please.... PLEASE.... tell me that "Akademic Shokalskiy" translates to English as "Life Lessons".....

Posted by: fixerupper at January 02, 2014 10:22 AM (nELVU)

14 No, it's not hurricanes anymore. Now it's tornadoes. Because we've had tornadoes.

SCIENCE

Posted by: Mega at January 02, 2014 10:23 AM (hHFOx)

15 The earth appears to be cooling fairly dramatically based on the massive Winter Arctic refreezing since 2007 and hundreds of new all-time low temperature records in cold places. Ice and cold are weather. Only heat and hurricanes (or the lack thereof) are climate.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2014 10:23 AM (WX3R9)

16 But you mustn't laugh too much at the New Gods. They will get angry, and throw a hurricane at you.

Meh, we could use the rain.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 02, 2014 10:23 AM (4WhSY)

17 I always thought White Russians were pretty lame.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:23 AM (V4CBV)

18 >>climate change research expedition Nothing says serious research like: >On board there is a cosy bar lounge and a dedicated lecture room/library stocked with a good collection of reference books and videos. Akademik Shokalskiy is not a luxury vessel, with accommodation being reasonably simple yet perfectly comfortable. All cabins have outside portholes or windows, and ample storage space, with the choice of triple & twin shared cabins with shared bathrooms or private twins with private facilities along with superior double cabins and a suite. The spacious bridge is always open to passengers and provides a great vantage point when sailing. The food is typically wholesome and uncomplicated and is served by efficient Russian stewardesses. A small fleet of onboard zodiac enable landings and exploratory cruising. There is a small infirmary with a ships Dr on call, ship to shore communications are available. http://tinyurl.com/mcx5q8b

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 10:23 AM (SUKHu)

19 Probably just the fault of those radical white southerners. I mean, really southern, like southern hemisphere.

Posted by: tcn at January 02, 2014 10:23 AM (fwcEs)

20 If one of them passes away will there then be a commie green crusade against the ice? Yes, that was a statement masquerading as a question. Thank you, Dr. Phil.

Posted by: DM at January 02, 2014 10:24 AM (LaKlJ)

21 A sharknado would've just bitten through the ice.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:24 AM (V4CBV)

22 @8 Because heat is being sequestered at the bottom of the ocean through a mechanism that apperently breaks all of the laws of thermodynamics and physics.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 10:24 AM (WlOHE)

23 SHIP OF FOOLS.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 02, 2014 10:25 AM (wtvvX)

24 The stupid people. They are everywhere.

Posted by: Harry at January 02, 2014 10:26 AM (ao2LR)

25
I liked the explanation from the one article saying the reason there is more ice because global warming made the winds change which built up more ice.

You can't make this stuff up.  Well, you can because they did, but you can't make up that they would.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 02, 2014 10:26 AM (MaP11)

26 No one seems to notice that this valuable research is needed to prove that the global average temperature is going to rise half a degree over the next 100 years.

You can't just reach a conclusion about global average temperatures based on a week or two event in one minor locality.

You can't cherry pick your data like that. You have to take the temperatures all over, and average them over a long period of time.

It's science, it's math, it's statistics, and it's hard. yo.

/flashing red neon sarcasm sign ..blink..blink..blinkity...blink

Posted by: Yuri Buri at January 02, 2014 10:26 AM (TNi+5)

27 >>Yeah, they might also have noted that it is high summer in Antarctica. Wouldn't it be the beginning of summer there?

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 10:26 AM (SUKHu)

28 24 The stupid people. They are everywhere.

Posted by: Harry at January 02, 2014 02:26 PM (ao2LR)


And is it just me, or are they getting progressively stupider?

Posted by: tcn at January 02, 2014 10:27 AM (fwcEs)

29 Everyone knows heat falls and cold rises! EVERYONE!!!

Posted by: Kreplach at January 02, 2014 10:27 AM (WlOHE)

30 "...Russian stewardesses..."

Wait. What?

That might be interesting.....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 02, 2014 10:27 AM (wtvvX)

31 Did they find that hockey stick?

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at January 02, 2014 10:27 AM (oDCMR)

32 I thought only George Bush could throw hurricanes...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 02, 2014 10:27 AM (fwARV)

33 Wasn't a total loss. The PhD candidate aboard who studies "brain injury outcomes" must have a boatload of data by now.

Posted by: weft -loop [/i] [/b] at January 02, 2014 10:28 AM (dwArK)

34 Who's a denier again?

I'm thinking the idiots crowing about global warming while stuck in the ice are the ones in denial.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2014 10:28 AM (POpqt)

35 Sorry, Mega, but even tornadoes were down this year. http://tinyurl.com/ncw3o6g SCIENCE!!!

Posted by: Tim at January 02, 2014 10:28 AM (xq7pr)

36 I wish I'd been the first to say it, but:

These arrogant prats are the first "climate refugees" of 2014.

Fleeing a climate that was a hell of a lot colder than they predicted it would be.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 10:28 AM (gqT4g)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 02, 2014 10:28 AM (wtvvX)

38

A global warming  denier walked into a bar and ordered a Hurricane. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 02, 2014 10:28 AM (m2CN7)

39 Doublethink *requires* you to not notice the obvious when it exposes an inconvenient truth.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at January 02, 2014 10:29 AM (0q2P7)

40 Narrative dear Ace...narrative.

WUWT shreds the "logic" of the expedition lock stock and barrel....

the AGW cultists are actually near panic mode....

the area of Canada I would like to live in as a third or fourth choice had a temperature that is as frigid as the surface of Mars last evening.

Global Warming my Scandi asshole.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:29 AM (TE35l)

41 They had a mission statement news release type of thing on the ships website over a week ago that has since disappeared.  They expected to find vast areas of open water on their trek due to global warming.

Posted by: Registered Voter at January 02, 2014 10:30 AM (0DC/m)

42 also uncommented on by the Weather Cult is the fact there is more ice than there was a century ago....

AGW Hysterics....unwilling to be happy to be wrong

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:30 AM (TE35l)

43 Didn't the guy who organized this little three hour tour say something like "We're off!"

Sums up much that does.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 10:30 AM (cubpP)

44 Did the heat conveyor that explained to pause in global warming break all the ice off the sea floor? Thus adding it to the surface.

Doing idiot scincey hypothonizing.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 02, 2014 10:31 AM (tf9Ne)

45 >>Wait a sec. If "sea ice is disappearing" then how did the ship get stuck in ice? Since it's, ya know, in the ocean... Answer me that one.

IIRC, the most recent IPCC report that came out a few months ago explained away the non-warmening going on by saying that they failed to take into account the effect of the world's oceans on global temperature. Let that one sink in....they ignored the impact of what covers 75% of the planet in their models.
And we're the ones in denial?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2014 10:31 AM (POpqt)

46 @12 At least nine. Every year since 2004. One (2005) out of nine, baby! That's good for Warmists. The recent seasons were abnormally weak.

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 10:31 AM (sOtz/)

47 Irony is reserved for Brooklyn hipsters.

Posted by: Lauren at January 02, 2014 10:31 AM (9jJOH)

48 41 Registered Voter at January 02, 2014 02:30 PM (0DC/m)

and they must have sincerely believed it or they would not have booked a ship that barely meets the qualification to run Polar waters at all let alone an ice breaker.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:31 AM (TE35l)

49 >>>I liked the explanation from the one article saying the reason there is more ice because global warming made the winds change which built up more ice.

>>>You can't make this stuff up. Well, you can because they did, but you can't make up that they would.

If you wrote it as satire in the the Onion it would be to unbelievable to be funny. The fact that it is really no kidding what's happening is shock to the mind which would readily disbelieve the fiction if it were not fact.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at January 02, 2014 10:31 AM (0q2P7)

50 go that has since disappeared. They expected to find vast areas of open water on their trek due to global warming. Also, summer.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2014 10:32 AM (WX3R9)

51 >>I assume the russian ship is frozen in place, for the rest of time. Perhaps a monument. There have been numerous ships trapped in Antarctic ice and abandoned/sunk over the last few years. It just hasn't been convenient to talk about them. And by convenient I mean it didn't help the AGW myth.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2014 10:32 AM (g1DWB)

52 Actually the IPCC is much like a certain Mr. Kimbal.

Kimbal searches for the one armed man, the IPCC searches for the hidden heat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 02, 2014 10:32 AM (cubpP)

53 Another example of why one party control of mass communications constitutes a very serious national security threat. They lie by omission constantly.

Posted by: D-Lamp at January 02, 2014 10:32 AM (bb5+k)

54 >>>the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” Also: "The millionaire, and his wife, the movie star, the professor and Mary Ann..."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:32 AM (V4CBV)

55 Does this mean that the seas will shrink and a land bridge to Asia will soon appear? I really don't want anymore Asians in North America, they drive like sh*t.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at January 02, 2014 10:33 AM (oDCMR)

56 50 Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2014 02:32 PM (WX3R9)

it is why Coppertone was a corporate sponsor no doubt...

the Penguins were practicing surfing....

we're being governed by people elected by retards who are dumber than normal 8 year olds.

an 8 year old gets after the Disney movie shuts off that it is "reality time" again

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:33 AM (TE35l)

57 51 JackStraw at January 02, 2014 02:32 PM (g1DWB)

the 22 man crew has been instructed to shelter in place and brace the hull against implosion and capsizing if able.

This idiocy will probably yet yield a body count.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:34 AM (TE35l)

58 The real feel good part of the story is the pics of their fundraising efforts. Can't remember where I saw them, but nobody is contributing.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 10:34 AM (SUKHu)

59 I guess climate really isnÂ’t weather, and never the twain shall meet. When does weather become climate? When the time frame is favorable to creating a pretty graph that shows warming. The latest cooling period? It's also a driver of the time frame. Climate = the time frame in which the latest cooling period took place + a fudge factor of a couple of years.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:34 AM (WhJf8)

60
Looks like they found what they were looking for.


Posted by: looking closely at January 02, 2014 10:34 AM (PwGfd)

61 To them I am a climate change denier? Let me fix that...to them I am a "climate change" denier. Nobody denies that earth's climate is changing...it's constantly changing. After all, I've never heard anyone suggest that past ice ages were something imaginary. There's too much evidence for that. "Climate change" exists as a narrow, maybe even imaginary, definition of weather these brainwashed commies try to use to guilt-trip us into financial ruin.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:35 AM (/gJVs)

62 It's not nice to mock someone's religion.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 10:35 AM (P6QsQ)

63 I guess weather tourism is a thing.  Who knew?

Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2014 10:35 AM (bAGA/)

64 The minds of the AGW folks have been enslaved by a meme. It does not matter that the meme is false, it matters that it is powerful. Whenever you believe something independent of and even contrary to logic and evidence you have become a slave and are not allowed to think with an open mind. The meme punishes you if you try. If the meme is properly constructed and spread, it does not matter if it is true or false; the effect will be the same.

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 10:35 AM (EWsrI)

65 "They expected to find vast areas of open water on their trek due to global warming."

As Iowahawk said, you'd have to be a cold-hearted asshole not to find this funny.

Posted by: Filly at January 02, 2014 10:36 AM (gr/p1)

66 Theodoric of York, Medieval Justicard:

"If they are lying, the ice will reject them - but if they are stuck fast and freezing, they tell the truth!"

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 10:36 AM (RLTt1)

67 59 bonhomme at January 02, 2014 02:34 PM (WhJf

over at Tepid someone shut up my favorite punching bag LibFreeOrDie with "what is the temperature supposed to be today?"

Like Ogabecare it is about fixing a largely imaginary problem through concentration of life and death powers over sectors of the economy.

Brave New World I want off

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:36 AM (TE35l)

68 63 I guess weather tourism is a thing. Who knew? Posted by: huerfano at January 02, 2014 02:35 PM (bAGA/) For this crowd, it's more like weather porn.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:38 AM (/gJVs)

69 They expected to find vast areas of open water on their trek due to global warming. That's the part that cracks me up. What, they don't have access to satellite imagery that shows ice in that area? Or do they think the sat images are fake?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:38 AM (WhJf8)

70 >>I liked how it was up to WUWT to provide them with weather forecasts. O. M. G. I hadn't seen that. >>I explained to him that we had to remember that we were dealing with a Russian ship, not a military ship, but a charter vessel and they likely didnÂ’t have all the tools that American meteorologists had and may not even know where to look for better data. I also pointed out that the Australian scientists on-board were climatologists, and not operational weather forecasters, and finding this sort of weather data probably wasnÂ’t in their skill set. WUWT link: http://tinyurl.com/onu3qhp Finding this sort of data isn't in their skill set.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 10:38 AM (SUKHu)

71 Let's just simplify things: Global warming causes everything that happens in the climate. Conservatives are responsible for the failure of Obamacare, but Southern conservatives are the most at fault. President's Obama's record would be perfect on everything if anyone who disagreed with him would just SHUT UP!! and SIT DOWN!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein's brother in Dummerston, VTher in at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (BC6cY)

72 My popsicle is melting.

Posted by: Hop Sing, cook and cattle rustler, babysitter and bottle washer. at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (vuxgX)

73 The Press is corrupt. Dog bites man.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (pginn)

74 Who pays the cost of the rescue? The Russian who booked the expedition?
Or the expedition leaders who ordered the Russian captain to push on ahead into the ice?

Who pays for the loss of the vessel? The Captain for recklessly endangering his vessel, the crew, and his passengers? Or the expedition leader who demanded the ship continue the attempt to break through the ice?

Who insures the vessel, and will they pay off on the loss?

Who funded the expedition? A university somewhere? or a government grant?

Posted by: Yuri Buri at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (TNi+5)

75

Blah blah blah I went to Harvard, blah blah blah I covered (without any qualifications or experience) global economics for the New York Times at age 25, blah blah blah I am self-obsessed to the point of writing an entire post about dropping a middle initial that no one ever cared about. But blah blah blah I can link this to a broader trend toward informality and connectedness in our Internet culture.

http://tinyurl.com/n6rxzzo

Posted by: Nicholas Giselle Kristof of THE New York Fucking Times at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (x/lJo)

76 63 I guess weather tourism is a thing. Who knew? Watch the Weather Channel much?

Posted by: Da Storm Trackers at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (0FSuD)

77 >>>Turney had hoped to continue the trip if an icebreaker managed to free the ship. Despite his disappointment over the expedition being cut short, he said his spirits remained high. "I'm a bit sad it's ended this way," he said. "But we got lots and lots of great science done." Spoken like a true scientist.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:39 AM (V4CBV)

78 69 bonhomme at January 02, 2014 02:38 PM (WhJf

the entire "expedition" was a ship of fools...

they did not have fourteen days of weather charts...

they did not look at the maps of the ice coverage or take the charts with them...

NOAA maintains this shit

They were initiates in the cult looking to become acolytes

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:40 AM (TE35l)

79 But but but... 97% of scientists hand-picked bureaucrats working for a UN political committee who stand to lose their committee, jobs and funding if their dire predictions are false say that their dire predictions are unquestioningly true.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 02, 2014 10:40 AM (SY2Kh)

80 Who wants to bet they brought swimsuits and tanning lotion?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:40 AM (/gJVs)

81
So.... Alexander Ovechkin walks into a bar.  "Bartender.  You name drink after me, da??"

Bartender says "Youre that hockey player for the Capitals right???"

Ovechkin "Da da da"

So the bartender grabs his White Russian mix and pours it all over the counter.

Alexander cries "What is this mess??"

Bartender says "This is the "Ovechkin".  A White Russian with no Cup".

Posted by: fixerupper at January 02, 2014 10:40 AM (nELVU)

82 I wish it was the Bob Barker.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:40 AM (8T01L)

83 62 It's not nice to mock someone's religion. Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 02:35 PM (P6QsQ)
Only one religion is unmockable.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 10:40 AM (aVcgy)

84 @75 Are all liberals narcissist?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (0FSuD)

85 Pish-posh. What absolute twaddle. It's just a smidge of weather, and you can't make inferences about our obviously catastrophically warming climate from a tiny bit of weather. Merely a dot of ice in a puddle.

Posted by: Pipe-puffing Sophisticate at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (bSzbN)

86 The Farmer's Almanac weather-climate guy single-handedly has blown away the IPCC and the "consensus" by not ignoring the sun. C02 at 400 parts per MILLION is not even the most important greenhouse gas. It's third. Warmists analyze a complex system with seemingly infinite causations by ignoring all but one tiny factor. Shocker, their predictions are always wrong.

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (sOtz/)

87 "the ship full of climate-change scientists"

Mainly biologists, from what I can tell. Because as we all know, incredibly dynamic and difficult to measure biological populations, especially ones long in the past with little fossil presence, are a highly reliable proxy for climate conditions.

Plus also left-wing journalists from the _Grauniad_, er, the _Guardian_. (Those fearless seekers after journalistic truth at whose Web site, in article comments, if you post a link to another article at the very same site which contradicts the first, you'll be banned).

Plus twelve-year old family mmbers, who you can be sure were CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT, Wesley Crusher style, to the success of this "scientific mission". Why they didn't simply repel the ice by re-routing the flux capacitors through the main deflector dish is still a mystery.

Plus a cute little chickadee who is a Down Under regional marketing manager for Google, and whose "cooking channel on YouTube has 50,000 followers".

That's a truly high powered science team, to be sure. Nobels all round!

Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (gqT4g)

88 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street.

Posted by: The Holy Barometer of Antioch at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (R6JT1)

89 YEEEHAW!!

Posted by: Southern Whites yanking the levers on the Dreamcrusher 3000 [/i][/b] at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (5ikDv)

90 The Aussie commenters over at Watt's Up With That were happy to note that one of the people on the ship was a particularly obnoxious warmista. Much frivolity was had.

Posted by: joncelli at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (RD7QR)

91 "But we got lots and lots of great science done." That conga line was a paradigm shift in Earth Sciences.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:41 AM (8T01L)

92

I don't like this post. Too much racism.  Too much science denying.  Too much making me think.  I don't like to think.  I just want to be told what the important people think I should know.  And getting on-line to make sure my Free Money was deposited onto my card.

 

I also am awaiting the new season of Keeping Up With the Kardashian.

Posted by: Mallamutt, Channelling his inner LIV at January 02, 2014 10:42 AM (8pa6F)

93 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street. Posted by: The Holy Barometer of Antioch at January 02, 2014 02:41 PM (R6JT1 So did I, until I realized it was someone pissing on my head

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 02, 2014 10:42 AM (t3UFN)

94 But you mustn't laugh too much at the New Gods. They will get angry, and throw a hurricane at you. --- I think there's a greater chance of Lord Darkseid shooting Omega Beams at me than these "New Gods" throwing a hurricane at me.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 10:42 AM (/Crba)

95 The tickets for this little junket for those civilian true believers - $15K.

Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:42 AM (4JkHl)

96 @83 Great cross-dressing Muhammad, which religion is that?

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 10:42 AM (sOtz/)

97 88 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street. I was there. I walked to the other side.

Posted by: The Chicken at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (0FSuD)

98 >>Who funded the expedition? A university somewhere? or a government grant?

Per WUWT, the trip was originally funded by the media - BBC and Australia's ABC. This is why there were reporters embedded in the expedition.

No idea if they are also footing the bill for the rescue.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (POpqt)

99 95 The tickets for this little junket for those civilian true believers - $15K. --- Tickets - $15K Winter clothes - $300 Making an ass of yourself and your beliefs in front of the whole world - Priceless For everything else, there's Mastercard.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (/Crba)

100

>>>That's the part that cracks me up. What, they don't have access to satellite imagery that shows ice in that area?

Or do they think the sat images are fake?

.

.

.In fairness, it is high summer there.  About what July is in the Northern Hemisphere. 

 

But it is hilarious they had to be rescued from record ice cover that they thought would be open water as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Registered Voter at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (0DC/m)

101 88 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street.

Posted by: The Holy Barometer of Antioch at January 02, 2014 02:41 PM (R6JT1)


And then you crossed the street and watched it fall from the other side, too?


Yeah, I'm an asshole.....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (wtvvX)

102 >>What made the expedition even more dubious is that Turney and his team brought on paying tourists in what appears to have been an attempt to help defer the expedition’s costs and to be a source of cheap labor. According to the AAE website, the expedition was costed at US$1.5 million, which included the charter of the Akademik Shokalskiy to access the remote locations. “The site berths on board are available for purchase.” Prices start at $8000! >>The expedition brought with it 4 journalists, 26 paying tourists. >>Chris Turney’s wife Annette and two children Kara and Robert are also going with him to help blog, Tweet and broadcast about the experience for schools around the world. Via Andrew Bolt. Serious science, guys, seriously.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (SUKHu)

103 A Professor of climate change? No fucking preconceived notions there, is there.

Posted by: maddogg at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (xWW96)

104 "But we got lots and lots of great science done." They noticed an alarming reduction in the rate of Polar Bear sightings.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:43 AM (8T01L)

105

But we got lots and lots of great science done."

 

Another graduate of the Ricky Henderson school of public speechifying.

Posted by: Mallamutt, Channelling his inner LIV at January 02, 2014 10:44 AM (8pa6F)

106

This  one used to kill on the Akademic Shokalskiy  until recently.

 

A penquin and a polar bear walk into a bar  and order whiskey on the rocks.

 

The  bartender brings them the drinks but both look at the glasses disapprovingly.

 

The bartender says,  " What's the problem?"

 

They both say, " Not enough ice"

Posted by: polynikes at January 02, 2014 10:44 AM (m2CN7)

107 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street. I saw a lot of this kind of oddity in the Philippines. One side of the street is hot and sunny, the other side is raining. Or it's raining, but I can't see a cloud in the sky. Or it's raining off-base and not on-base.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:44 AM (45N4D)

108 86 The Farmer's Almanac weather-climate guy single-handedly has blown away the IPCC and the "consensus" by not ignoring the sun. C02 at 400 parts per MILLION is not even the most important greenhouse gas. It's third. Warmists analyze a complex system with seemingly infinite causations by ignoring all but one tiny factor. Shocker, their predictions are always wrong. Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 02:41 PM (sOtz/) Am I wrong, or do their lavishly funded, super-cool computer models of climatic DOOM fail to include the big yellow thing in the sky?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:44 AM (/gJVs)

109 Wasn't the English translation of the Russian ship - "S.S. Albert Gore Jr." - enough of a heads up for these clowns?

Posted by: Roy at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (tiOTz)

110 Why haven't we had a Conseku, yet?

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (8T01L)

111 45 >>Wait a sec. If "sea ice is disappearing" then how did the ship get stuck in ice? Since it's, ya know, in the ocean... Answer me that one. IIRC, the most recent IPCC report that came out a few months ago explained away the non-warmening going on by saying that they failed to take into account the effect of the world's oceans on global temperature. Let that one sink in....they ignored the impact of what covers 75% of the planet in their models. And we're the ones in denial? Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2014 02:31 PM (POpqt) Why the only thing dumber would to be for them to ignore the impact of the sun. Oh wait.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (ZrHa8)

112 Algore had a good con going there for a little while - a con of the abundently   stupid, that is.  I'm convinced that much like a Bond villain, Algore was  working a plan to pay the evil United States back for cheating him out of his rightful throne at 1600 Penn that was  bequest to him by his father.  I really believe after he lost the election, that he started his own payback quest.  And it almost worked too, if not for those meddling conservatives!

Posted by: Havedash at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (gvqyH)

113 400 parts per million is 0.04 percent Four one hundredths of a penny.

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (EWsrI)

114 Am I wrong, or do their lavishly funded, super-cool computer models of climatic DOOM fail to include the big yellow thing in the sky? --- You're not wrong and it is intentional. They want it to be ANTHROPOMORPHIC global warming, so they treat sun output as a constant instead of recognizing that the sun will have periods of higher and lower activity.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (/Crba)

115 They keep blaming the iceberg - that iceberg has been there for 25 years.

Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:45 AM (4JkHl)

116 I'm worried if they get too many people on that ship, it could tip over.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at January 02, 2014 10:46 AM (hHFOx)

117 108 model_1066 at January 02, 2014 02:44 PM (/gJVs)

You are not wrong...the largest source of thermal energy in this solar system is not a factor....and hold the phone...

neither are clouds...

the whole fucking thing HAD to have started as a bar bet by two fucking Malthusian Death Cultist fan "scientists" in Berkeley

"hey hold my beer and watch this"

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:46 AM (TE35l)

118 Climatology is not an exact science. Why, just 50 years ago we thought global climate variation was caused by demons and witchcraft. Now we know its caused by an imbalance of humors, perhaps caused by a toad or small dwarf living at the center of the earth.

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 10:46 AM (RLTt1)

119 Embedded reporters, is that something like an oyster bed, or maybe a Rosie O'Donnal bed? I'll be back with the brain bleach.

Posted by: Hop Sing, cook and cattle rustler, babysitter and bottle washer. at January 02, 2014 10:47 AM (vuxgX)

120 119 Climatology is not an exact science. Why, just 50 years ago we thought global climate variation was caused by demons and witchcraft. Now we know its caused by an imbalance of humors, perhaps caused by a toad or small dwarf living at the center of the earth. --- I approve of this message.

Posted by: Theodoric, Barber Of York at January 02, 2014 10:47 AM (/Crba)

121 Good thing we have legally license illegal immigrants, maybe they can solve the problem of global warming deniers by passing laws to make it illegal!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 02, 2014 10:47 AM (ZPrif)

122 The good thing is, when Summer arrives the ice will melt and the ship will be free...

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:47 AM (8T01L)

123 Bill Whittle has it right. But they won't do their damned jobs and report news. And truly pitiful for Americans to get more factual information from Pravda than they do the MSNBC's and CNN's of the world.

Posted by: DC at January 02, 2014 10:48 AM (nOLbs)

124 ...wait, you mean it's Summer now?

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 10:48 AM (8T01L)

125 I studied the ice over the holidays.

Melting, always melting into my Jack Daniels.

Time for more research.

Posted by: Bruce at January 02, 2014 10:48 AM (nZ561)

126 115 Jean at January 02, 2014 02:45 PM (4JkHl)


right the one that was there when I was 16...

it's almost like the fuckers can't grasp "icecaps melt and calves assholes where do you think the iceberg the titanic hit came from?"

uh internal combustion engines?

//AGW Dork

*bang*

//me by self inflicted gunshot wound

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:48 AM (TE35l)

127 Am I wrong, or do their lavishly funded, super-cool computer models of climatic DOOM fail to include the big yellow thing in the sky? I believe it's common in the different models to have the sun output as a constant. I believe they've also admitted several embarrassing problems, like comically bad understanding of basic things like clouds or trees, and at one point, infinitely thick atmosphere.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:48 AM (45N4D)

128 What keeps Climatology from being an exact science is lack of information, and the tendancy of those with an agenda to keep it that way.

Posted by: maddogg at January 02, 2014 10:48 AM (xWW96)

129 113 400 parts per million is 0.04 percent Four one hundredths of a penny. Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 02:45 PM (EWsrI) It was what, 5000ppm during the Miocene, yet the oith refused to become a smoldering cinder? How is that?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:49 AM (/gJVs)

130 "Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition."

So there! another 97 percent consensus! Take that, right wing troglodytes!

Posted by: Mallfly at January 02, 2014 10:49 AM (bJm7W)

131 Must be a bitch to go through life insecure........

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 02, 2014 10:49 AM (HVff2)

132 @116 I'd fuck Anna, the blonde with the Aussie accent. Just saying.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 10:49 AM (0FSuD)

133 I think a $300 clothes budget is light for that crowd, I'm certain they weren't grabbing milsurp arctic gear.  I was doing radar work up in Alaska and Canada in the 90's and I spent more then that on milsurp/used stuff.

Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:49 AM (4JkHl)

134 I really believe after he lost the election, that he started his own payback quest. And it almost worked too, if not for those meddling conservatives! It worked splendidly. Gore made a shitload of cash of the AGW scam, over $100 million, including getting made a partner at a venture capital company where he led the "green" investment practice. >>Fourteen green-tech firms in which Gore invested received or directly benefited from more than $2.5 billion in loans, grants and tax breaks, part of President ObamaÂ’s historic push to seed a U.S. renewable-energy industry with public money. http://tinyurl.com/8hbwsxl

Posted by: JackStraw at January 02, 2014 10:50 AM (g1DWB)

135 The good thing is, when Summer arrives the ice will melt and the ship will be free... As the ice-pack melts and shifts, the ship will probably be crushed like a beer-can on the freeway.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:50 AM (45N4D)

136

They forgot to throw a grad student into a volcano before setting forth and the climate gods are angered at them.

 

Silly scientists, don't they know they have to appease the nature spirits first?  I honetly don't know what academia is coimg to when basic research precautions aren't taken.  Makes one despair about the future, it does.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Have a Querulous New Year from the Outrage Outlet at January 02, 2014 10:50 AM (hLRSq)

137 I guarentee that if someone was shot and killed at a pro 2nd Amendment rally,  the JournOlists would place that irony right at the top of the story.

Posted by: WisRich at January 02, 2014 10:50 AM (hdpay)

138 130 113 400 parts per million is 0.04 percent Four one hundredths of a penny. Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 02:45 PM (EWsrI) It was what, 5000ppm during the Miocene, yet the oith refused to become a smoldering cinder? How is that? Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 02:49 PM (/gJVs) Racism.

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (EWsrI)

139 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street.
Posted by: The Holy Barometer of Antioch at January 02, 2014 02:41 PM (R6JT1

So did I, until I realized it was someone pissing on my head

I've witnessed that lots of times.  I'd be standing on one side, but the bottom side didn't get any rain at all.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (SY2Kh)

140 Yup, and doesn't surprise me. I've been over at my mom's for the holidays and she watches the NBC eve news with Brian Williams, so I have too. (Not yelling at the TV over the spin in their reports, to preserve familial harmony, has been a good test of my patience and inner peace, bwahaha.)  They have given updates on the ship each evening, and each evening not ONE single mention about climate science, or global warming. Not a peep. But they happily did a piece on the sad plight of polar bears due to global warming not that long ago. Agenda, what agenda?

Posted by: LizLem at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (BF+2f)

141 #11 Yeah, they might also have noted that it is high summer in Antarctica. We would never confuse our readers with such an allegation. Why, it would leaved them twitterpated!

Posted by: Dan Rather Knot, Pressitute at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (3z0LD)

142 In other news, an expedition to the moon to prove it is made of cheese starved to death today.  The cheese deniers took the opportunity to mock the brave and noble scientists who gave their life to save us from the giant cheese-ball hanging in our sky, proving that they are as lacking in human decency as they are in understanding of the cutting edge science of fromageology.

On a brighter note, the expedition to explore the edge of the earth returned safely to port today... albeit from the opposite direction. 

Posted by: Thatch at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (qYvEa)

143

That should have read "coming to".  I have no idea what happened.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Have a Querulous New Year from the Outrage Outlet at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (hLRSq)

144 Wasn't the New Gods one of those Jack Kirby dealios?

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (RLTt1)

145 I saw Delusional Nerds open for the KLF in 1991

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (0m29n)

146 Its summer down there now.

Posted by: maddogg at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (xWW96)

147 Posted by: Yuri Buri at January 02, 2014 02:39 PM (TNi+5)

Something tells me one ship's captain is going to have a hard time getting another cushy gig like this one!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (o3MSL)

148 When the actual sailors break free of the ice in a few weeks/months - do you think they will even get a back page story?

Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (4JkHl)

149 138 First I heard, it was a cruise ship. Posted by: Captain Crunch at January 02, 2014 02:50 PM (yn6XZ) On a three hour tour....

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (/gJVs)

150 400 parts per million is 0.04 percent

Four one hundredths of a penny.

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 02:45 PM (EWsrI)


----


..... and of that .0004, approximate 3.5% of it is manmade.

Manmade CO2 comprises .00014 of the Earths Atmosphere.   Rotting freaking vegetation in the Amazon gives off more CO2 than all of mankind.


Incinerate the planet my ass.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 02, 2014 10:51 AM (nELVU)

151 135 Jean at January 02, 2014 02:49 PM (4JkHl)

Jean I know a little about coping with extreme cold for manual work...

the "climate" they were wanting to study can cause tissue damage through most gear in 7 minutes depending on its rating.

The low up in Manitoba last night with wind chill?

Yeah it can freeze tissue solid in under 6 minutes.

It goes hand in hand with my theme these last four days b/c of that diver and his son....

these assholes do not respect the environ they are working in...

and  it can kill

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:52 AM (TE35l)

152 >> ...wait, you mean it's Summer now? I actually was confused about that, because winter just started here, so wouldn't it be the start of summer there? But I had to go and LEARN something: there are 2 seasons in Antarctica, not 4. That counts as math and science for today, kids. You are now as qualified as the climate scientists on that ship.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 10:52 AM (SUKHu)

153

Without the threat of man-made global warming (or other fictional catastrophe) looming over everything, the transnational Left cannot feasibly justify either outright or de facto regulatory control of the energy industry on a global scale.  Control energy production and distribution and you control nearly everything. Kings, tyrants, and emperors of old could only dream of such power. 

 

At this point in the story, the hero usually infiltrates SMERSH headquarters, gets captured so the bad guy can explain the plot, escapes, kills the bad guy and all of his flunkies, henchmen and goons, disarms the bomb, and then gets laid by Fukme Alldailong, the Chinese secret agent originally sent to stop the hero but--evidently willing to sell out her country and risk her life for multiple orgasms--has had a change of heart after that wild night in Jakarta.

 

Too bad life isn't a movie.

Posted by: troyriser at January 02, 2014 10:52 AM (gNlvW)

154 I heard racist Southern whites put the ice there cause they hate Muslims and vaginas.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 02, 2014 10:52 AM (ZPrif)

155 Too bad life isn't a movie. Posted by: troyriser at January 02, 2014 02:52 PM (gNlvW) No, but there's a book for that. "State of Fear" by Crichton.

Posted by: AMDG at January 02, 2014 10:53 AM (t7OO0)

156
♪ It was a ....shake down... shake down cruise ♫

Posted by: Jay Fergusen at January 02, 2014 10:53 AM (nELVU)

157 149 Its summer down there now. The hell you say, does Guam know about this?

Posted by: Hank Johnson at January 02, 2014 10:54 AM (0FSuD)

158

Respectfully, 98% of news reports failing to EVEN MENTION that global warming "scientists" are stuck in record ice cannot be a mistake.

 

This is intentional non-reporting and exposes the whole fucking thing.  How is this not THE MAJOR LEDE.  But to not even fucking mention it is unconscionable.  This is why no one trusts the media anymore.  They are leftist propagandists thru and thru. 

 

It's like the Denver Post erasing the crazy shooter in the HS was described as "a Socialist" but yet leaving reports that he was an avid Keynsian in the story.

 

Tar.  Feathers.  Burn the fucking media to the ground.  Not reporting the relevant facts is the same as fucking lying.

Posted by: prescient11 at January 02, 2014 10:54 AM (tVTLU)

159 I thought the latest bullshit news was that AGW is happening even faster than the scientists thought !!!11!!11!!

Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 10:54 AM (Qev5V)

160 Why don't people just accept the fact that they and their families have become poorer so Google and Facebook billionaires can feel good about their earth religion and nature worshiping cult? Mark Fuckerberg gets really upset when he thinks about how all those scummy middle class suburbs are hurting the earf. It hurts his feelings. Seriously.

Posted by: Progtard 2000 at January 02, 2014 10:55 AM (ZPrif)

161 But I had to go and LEARN something: there are 2 seasons in Antarctica, not 4. --- There are 2 seasons in South Louisiana as well, not 4. Those seasons are Too Damn Hot and Too Damn Cold. You can say that the other seasons exist but they last, MAYBE, a month each.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 10:55 AM (/Crba)

162 I forgot if Al Gore said it from his Gulfstream, his motorcade, or in one of his palatial 20,000 square foot mansions that uses more energy than a small city....but sayeth the Goracle: don't waste energy!

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 10:55 AM (/gJVs)

163 Phrenology deserves another look.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 02, 2014 10:55 AM (C9gyC)

164 Something tells me one ship's captain is going to have a hard time getting another cushy gig like this one! Climate-science muckity-muck: "What do you mean we have to stop? What's the problem?" Ship's Captain: "I cannot in good conscience continue. The ice is too thick and we could be trapped any time now." Climate-science muckity-muck: "There is no ice, denier! I am a Climate-science muckity-muck, science says the water is warm and too hot for ice formation." Ships Captain: "$40K more per day, and I'll sing of the Unicorn that lives in my anus." Climate-science muckity-muck: "Deal."

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:55 AM (45N4D)

165 158 Too bad life isn't a movie. Posted by: troyriser at January 02, 2014 02:52 PM (gNlvW) No, but there's a book for that. "State of Fear" by Crichton. --- Damn near every book by him has either been made into a movie or optioned for one. I seriously doubt that one has and we all know why.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 10:55 AM (/Crba)

166 162 Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 02:54 PM (Qev5V)

The gag is the cocksuckers are about to pull the old 62 skadoo and redub it "The Coming Ice Age" any fucking day now...

then the attacks on coal will be based on air quality

watch

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:56 AM (TE35l)

167 Yeah the two seasons in Antarctica are "blinding and frigid" and "don't bother radioing for help"

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 02, 2014 10:56 AM (0m29n)

168 Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 02:55 PM (/Crba) You forgot duck, deer, and crawfish season.

Posted by: AMDG at January 02, 2014 10:56 AM (t7OO0)

169 O/T Oh no, another Obamacare fail. ER visits go up instead of down with newly insured. Warning NY Slime link, amazing they are reporting this: http://tinyurl.com/og2q772

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 10:56 AM (0FSuD)

170 Somebody needs to tell the Ice the science is settled.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 02, 2014 10:56 AM (C9gyC)

171 171 Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 02:55 PM (/Crba) You forgot duck, deer, and crawfish season. --- I think the seasons are actually Parade, Hunting, Football, and Crawfish.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 10:57 AM (/Crba)

172 >>>I actually was confused about that, because winter just started here, so wouldn't it be the start of summer there? Yes, they call it Summer's Eve down there.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 10:57 AM (V4CBV)

173 "Jean I know a little about coping with extreme cold for manual work... the 'climate' they were wanting to study can cause tissue damage through most gear in 7 minutes depending on its rating."

Alok Jha, one of the Guardianista "journalists" along to assist in doing HIGH POWERED SCIENCY SCIENCE STUFF SERIOUS YOU GUYS, posted on social media about how he took a glove off outside -- to send an e-mail, natch -- and was shocked and surprised by how fast he began to lose the use of that exposed hand.

Fuckin' frostbite. How does it work?

Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (gqT4g)

174 There are 2 seasons in South Louisiana as well, not 4.

Those seasons are Too Damn Hot and Too Damn Cold.

In Minnesota the two seasons are Winter and Road Construction.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (SY2Kh)

175 To be fair, the Captain was Joseph Hazelwood. Lots of experience in arctic waters, srsly.

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (RLTt1)

176 Mark Fuckerberg gets really upset when he thinks about how all those scummy middle class suburbs are hurting the earf. It hurts his feelings. Seriously. He soothes himself by looking at the pictures your 14 year old daughter sent to her boyfriend "privately".

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (45N4D)

177 The AGW folks will say the Earth would have warmed up if the Sun hadn't decided to drop its energy flux by just the right amount to start a return of the glaciers. They will never ever admit they were wrong. Ever.

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (EWsrI)

178 oh fuck me twice nck just woke me up at least my wife is hot otherwise i'd be smoking my gun for breakfast

Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (MX68J)

179 I think the seasons are actually ParadeFishing, Hunting, Football, and CrawfishMarch Madness. FIFY.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 10:58 AM (0FSuD)

180 Fuckin' frostbite. How does it work? --- Fuckin' MAGIC!

Posted by: Insane Climbing Posse of Mount Everest at January 02, 2014 10:59 AM (/Crba)

181 176 torquewrench at January 02, 2014 02:58 PM (gqT4g)


as quickly as thermodynamics...

remember they are the SMART ones we are dumb.

"I'm smaht not wike peeple say..."

//D F Goreon PhD of E-Mailing

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 10:59 AM (TE35l)

182 Yep. It was a tourist 'cruise ship' from Russia with Greenie-Libtard tourisst aboard. Behold photo gallery of the Russian Stewardesses: http://tinyurl.com/czz3ytn

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 02, 2014 10:59 AM (6fSty)

183 @169 It is already happening. They are claiming the giant Chinese stink cloud is cooling the planet, or volcanoes. Or, stuff I used to mention in 2000 and get roundly ridiculed by know-it-all Warmists riding a decade of minor warming.

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 11:00 AM (sOtz/)

184 at least my wife is hot otherwise i'd be smoking my gun for breakfast Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 02:58 PM (MX68J) I always forget to ask, how old is nck? As a dad of two daughters, it's always good to map out how much time I have until Armageddon.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 02, 2014 11:00 AM (JpFMR)

185 "I'm a bit sad it's ended this way," he said. "But we got lots and lots of great science done." Spoken like a true scientist. Posted by: Dr. Varno But we gots lots and lots of great cipherin' done. // Jethro Bodine

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 11:00 AM (t+DWU)

186 Faith in AGW comes first. Science is second. Or third. Or...when you get to it.

Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 11:00 AM (MMC8r)

187 Frostbite is a myth invented by white climate change deniers and Duck Dynasty viewers. The earth is so warm that it's impossible to get frost-bite!!!

Posted by: Progtard 2000 at January 02, 2014 11:00 AM (ZPrif)

188 I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street. I saw a lot of this kind of oddity in the Philippines. One side of the street is hot and sunny, the other side is raining. Or it's raining, but I can't see a cloud in the sky. Or it's raining off-base and not on-base. Posted by: bonhomme at January 02, 2014 02:44 PM (45N4D) I was riding in a car and when I looked out the passenger's side, it was bright and sunny. Looked out the driver's side, pouring. A minute later, it was raining on only half the car. Very freaky.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at January 02, 2014 11:00 AM (VtjlW)

189 @185 My eyes my eyes. Was this a PRISON ship?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:01 AM (0FSuD)

190 178 Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 02:58 PM (RLTt1)

Exactly...which tells me the "smart ones" were bitching to go as close to the shelf as possible...

damndest thing though Bigby the Poles are the most weather extreme places on Earth you know what they call a hurricane gale out of the blue down there?

"Monday"

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 11:01 AM (TE35l)

191 >>There are 2 seasons in South Louisiana as well, not 4. LOL. Up here, I'd say it was "raining enough to flood everything" or "cloudy but no rain so it's a drought". We've got flood warnings now and it hasn't rained in almost 2 weeks.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (SUKHu)

192

They keep blaming the iceberg

 

They always blame the joos.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (A0sHn)

193 180 The AGW folks will say the Earth would have warmed up if the Sun hadn't decided to drop its energy flux by just the right amount to start a return of the glaciers. They will never ever admit they were wrong. Ever. Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 02:58 PM (EWsrI) All I can do then is point and laugh? Fuck that, I want my money back, and I will take it.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (/gJVs)

194 186 Beagle at January 02, 2014 03:00 PM (sOtz/)

I was on to their scam back in grade school.

It is so transparent.  They want total control of energy and health...then vote as you will unelected people fucking own your QoL.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (TE35l)

195 the 22 man crew has been instructed to shelter in place and brace the hull against implosion and capsizing if able. This idiocy will probably yet yield a body count.
Fewer mouths to feed, so the rations should hold.
If they can't sail out by about April 1, that ship will probably get crushed.
I am rooting for the ice.

Posted by: fluffy at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (Ua6T/)

196 O/T: So, some outfit in Asheville, NC came up with what can only be described as "My Little C'thulu": http://tinyurl.com/lo9ybnr Don't suppose any of the Horde in the area might have had anything to do with this...?

Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (naUcP)

197 "Oh no, another Obamacare fail. ER visits go up instead of down with newly insured."

This is, of course, precisely what happened earlier, in Massachusetts, with Romneycare. Proponents of that scheme said that it would drive down inappropriate ER utilization.

Did that happen? Well, no, it did not. ER visits went way up.

That promise joined a long list of other promises made by boosters of Romneycare (lower total cost, shorter wait times, better outcomes, lower unemployment) that were equally falsified by hard cold realities when the rubber met the road.

Did America hear about any of this during the debate about enacting Obamacare? For some reason, the media minions at Minitru failed to mention any of these little details. An oversight, you can be sure.

And did America hear anything about any of this during the 2012 Presidential campaign? No, because the brilliant GOP ran the guy whose political career highlight was creating Romneycare, and he sure as shit wasn't going to be calling it a huge flameout fail-fest.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (gqT4g)

198 The Left believes that tiny, tiny things have big, big, unintended consequences, but only with the environment. Economies, markets, social policy? No, there everything works to their finely-outlined plans like clockwork.

Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (MMC8r)

199 The ice cubes in my bong are melting. Must be the globull warmening.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (7ObY1)

200 When I lived in Louisiana,  my seasons were Mardi Gras ,  Spring  Break,  Swine Festival / Contraband days  and Christmas. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 02, 2014 11:02 AM (m2CN7)

201 I actually was confused about that, because winter just started here, so wouldn't it be the start of summer there? Yes, they call it Summer's Eve down there. Posted by: Dr. Varno That smells fishy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 11:03 AM (t+DWU)

202 It'll be the fault of the southern white racists conservative climate deniers, when the ship is crushed like a beer can and the diesel oil in it pollutes the area too.

Or did it run on Unicorn Farts?

Posted by: Bruce at January 02, 2014 11:03 AM (nZ561)

203 190 Frostbite is a myth invented by white climate change deniers and Duck Dynasty viewers. The earth is so warm that it's impossible to get frost-bite!!! --- I see you've followed my suggestion to use permafrost as nature's longjohns.

Posted by: Free Waterfall Sr. at January 02, 2014 11:03 AM (/Crba)

204 187 turned 12 last oct the worst part is she starts high school next year cause she started early and skipped 1st grade the hell days are upon us

Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 11:03 AM (MX68J)

205 >>I think the seasons are actually Parade Parade season is longer than usual this year!

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 11:04 AM (SUKHu)

206 188 But we gots lots and lots of great cipherin' done.
// Jethro Bodine
Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 03:00 PM (t+DWU)
He did his guzzintas.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 02, 2014 11:04 AM (aVcgy)

207 119 Climatology is not an exact science. Why, just 50 years ago we thought global climate variation was caused by demons and witchcraft. Now we know its caused by an imbalance of humors, perhaps caused by a toad or small dwarf living at the center of the earth. Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 02:46 PM (RLTt1)

We might not have bloodletting anymore, but we certainly still have the leeches, albeit in a different form...

Posted by: LizLem at January 02, 2014 11:04 AM (BF+2f)

208 I was riding in a car and when I looked out the passenger's side, it was bright and sunny. Looked out the driver's side, pouring. A minute later, it was raining on only half the car. Very freaky. Malfunctioning car wash?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 11:04 AM (t+DWU)

209 Posted by: eman at January 02, 2014 02:58 PM (EWsrI)

Well, if all my assumptions had been spot on, the earth would have warmed just like my theoretical model said it would.  Therefore the science is sound and settled.

Posted by: Apocalyptic Climate Scientist at January 02, 2014 11:04 AM (o3MSL)

210 199 fluffy at January 02, 2014 03:02 PM (Ua6T/)

so am I....

I love our species.

God help me I do and we have done a yeoman's job of crafting many wonderful engineering and procedural solutions to navigate this planet.....which can end us with a wink.

The hubris involved in thinking we are kicking Earth's ass is stunning.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 11:04 AM (TE35l)

211 206 It'll be the fault of the southern white racists conservative climate deniers, when the ship is crushed like a beer can and the diesel oil in it pollutes the area too. Or did it run on Unicorn Farts? Posted by: Bruce at January 02, 2014 03:03 PM (nZ561) If there were actually a journalist worth two shits that could get on tee-vee, it would be priceless to watch these eco-fascists get grilled on the 'carbon footprint' of their stupid stunt.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:06 AM (/gJVs)

212 re 185: made internet explorer lock up. saw a few pics first. not American cheerleader material, I think not

Posted by: Mallfly at January 02, 2014 11:06 AM (bJm7W)

213 @166 My great grandfather was an 'expert' in phrenology. I bought into Chariots of the Gods in elementary school. And I was a pioneering Warmist after I read Herzog's Heat novel in 1977. It is a constant struggle just to avoid crapthink, much less be mostly correct.

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 11:06 AM (sOtz/)

214 O/T: So, some outfit in Asheville, NC came up with what can only be described as "My Little C'thulu": http://tinyurl.com/lo9ybnr Don't suppose any of the Horde in the area might have had anything to do with this...? Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 03:02 PM (naUcP) Neeeeeeed. IIRC, those awesome Sports Illustrated pictures of Kate Upton had something like a 2 minute time window to get the shot due to that whole pesky being more or less naked on an ice floe thingy.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (VtjlW)

215 200 O/T: So, some outfit in Asheville, NC came up with what can only be described as "My Little C'thulu": http://tinyurl.com/lo9ybnr Don't suppose any of the Horde in the area might have had anything to do with this...? --- Looks to be based on the Cthulhu plushes sold by Steve Jackson Games' Warehouse 23 site.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (/Crba)

216 "Oh no, another Obamacare fail. ER visits go up instead of down with newly insured." A friend of mine that works in an ER said people were coming in, confident that they were covered, as soon as the law passed. So I imagine that should be "ER visits go up MORE." We're screwed. Because MATHZ.

Posted by: jakeman at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (vH4YP)

217 >>>I once witnessed the miracle of rain falling on one side of the street. I saw a lot of this kind of oddity in the Philippines. One side of the street is hot and sunny, the other side is raining. Or it's raining, but I can't see a cloud in the sky. Or it's raining off-base and not on-base. Posted by: bonhomme at January 02, 2014 02:44 PM (45N4D) It must be a Tropics thing. I saw something similar in Jamaica. Plus, you can time the afternoon showers down to the same minute each day.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (V4CBV)

218 -12 wind chill. Fuck you, Michael Mann. I want my global warming.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (T0NGe)

219 Our model works perfectly as long as we assume clouds don't exist and current measurements are wrong!

Posted by: EcoFascist Sciencetician at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (ZPrif)

220 Yes, they call it Summer's Eve down there.
Posted by: Dr. Varno


That smells fishy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 03:03 PM (t+DWU)



Well played, sir.  Well played, indeed!

Posted by: Sharkman at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (TM1p8)

221 Don't these scientific expeditions THINK about the SEA LIFE that is DESTROYED by the PROPELLERS of their sea-going DEATHMACHINES?!?!?

Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 11:07 AM (MMC8r)

222 I've got 19 inches of snow on the ground here and it's still falling. Windchill is something like twelve below. Over the weekend the temps are going to drop and the high on Monday is supposed to be minus 8. Please tell me why global warming is a bad thing.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 11:08 AM (P6QsQ)

223 O/T: California Supreme Court rules that illegals can be given law licenses.

Irony just gave up completely.  It's dead now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2014 11:08 AM (102Hx)

224 >>>We might not have bloodletting anymore

This is the kind of forward thinking that the climate deniers can only dream of! We'll start in on this toot sweet

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 11:08 AM (RLTt1)

225 Don't suppose any of the Horde in the area might have had anything to do with this...? Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 03:02 PM (naUcP) Neeeeeeed. Did you see the tagline? "Friendship is madness." HA!

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 11:09 AM (45N4D)

226 225 Don't these scientific expeditions THINK about the SEA LIFE that is DESTROYED by the PROPELLERS of their sea-going DEATHMACHINES?!?!? Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 03:07 PM (MMC8r) Not to mention the NOISE those ships make! Why couldn't they make fools of themselves in a quieter, more earth friendly way?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:10 AM (/gJVs)

227 Irony is a dish best served cold.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 02, 2014 11:10 AM (XUKZU)

228 My great grandfather was an 'expert' in phrenology. Theoretical or applied? Because I'm a big believer in behavior modification by percussive cranial reshaping...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 11:10 AM (naUcP)

229 Malfunctioning car wash? Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 03:04 PM (t+DWU) Heh. No, we were in Puerto Rico. Someone said it was fairly common to rain on only one side of the street.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (VtjlW)

230 Irony is a dish best served cold. I thought that was pizza.

Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (MMC8r)

231 232 Irony is a dish best served cold. --- qa'pla!

Posted by: M'Chelle of Qo'nos at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (/Crba)

232 I'm a big believer in behavior modification by percussive cranial reshaping... *bop* *shows inkblot* "What do you see?" "A pony?" "Nope" *bop*

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (45N4D)

233 If you believe actual temperature records over our computer models that exclude clouds then you are an anti-Science denier. Also there race and ethnicity are social constructs -- the DNA testing kits that can identify your ethnic group from a cheek swab are lies!! Lies I tell you!!!!! Don't believe the DNA testing kits you anti-Science denier wingnuts!!!

Posted by: Sciencetician! at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (ZPrif)

234 Theoretical or applied? Because I'm a big believer in behavior modification by percussive cranial reshaping...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 03:10 PM (naUcP)


Did you know my platoon sergeant?

Posted by: h at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (o3MSL)

235 233 Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 03:10 PM (naUcP)

Direct Kinetic Tranferral or Hyperbaric Pressurization Molding?

//fellow Entusiast

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (TE35l)

236 Looks to be based on the Cthulhu plushes sold by Steve Jackson Games' Warehouse 23 site. Heh. I have a plush Nyarlathotep. Which probably illustrates a great deal about yrs. trly.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (naUcP)

237 Irony is a dish best served cold Like Hobo.

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 11:11 AM (8T01L)

238 bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 02, 2014 11:12 AM (V4CBV)

239 Went through the airport today, CNN was reporting that "Shifting ice conditions delayed the expedition."

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2014 11:12 AM (W6bkf)

240 NCJ Did you see the Bears signed Cutler to a 7 yr contract?

Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 11:12 AM (P6QsQ)

241 Hammer lives near Asheville. Pony's could be his work?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:12 AM (0FSuD)

242 " But you mustn't laugh too much at the New Gods. They will get angry, and throw a hurricane at you."

I'd rather throw a Mk 48 torpedo at them, and bury that tub of wasted genetic material to the only fitting memorial they need...

Posted by: fred zeppelin at January 02, 2014 11:12 AM (zL/eJ)

243 I have a plush Nyarlathotep. Imhotep made of fake mylar?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (45N4D)

244 All Religions require absolute faith and obedience to doctrine. And the non-believers should be shunned, derided, even harmed to protect the faith. Yup-- sounds like global warmists in action. Phil Robertson could get himself in more trouble by decrying the worship of false gods by these folks.

Posted by: MTF at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (F58x4)

245 Bears signed Cutler to a 7 yr contract Hahahaha

Posted by: garrett at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (8T01L)

246 Breaking News: California Supreme Court rules illegals are allowed to vote in state and federal elections, introduces new 3-point vote for illegals to account for past discrimination they've faced.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (ZPrif)

247 Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2014 03:08 PM (102Hx) CA has been out there for a while now. Only state where you don't need to go to an accredited school to take the bar. Bigger take-away of this is CA doesn't consider illegal entry/stay as evidence of bad moral character, which normally precludes acceptance to a bar.

Posted by: AMDG at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (t7OO0)

248 >>I've got 19 inches of snow on the ground here and it's still falling. Windchill is something like twelve below. Over the weekend the temps are going to drop and the high on Monday is supposed to be minus 8. I'm gonna start renting out our shed to you "climate refugees". It's going to get down in the 20s this week, but that should be tank-top weather for y'all.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (SUKHu)

249 global warming is real its only 77 degrees out so far brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (MX68J)

250 This ship is going to sit at the icecap, belching diesel exhaust, going nowhere, for months? Sweet.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (ZshNr)

251 247 fred zeppelin at January 02, 2014 03:12 PM (zL/eJ)

That's funny Fred I was just thinking Atomic Annie could do the job with a proper mounting on a BattleShip

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (TE35l)

252 "26 No one seems to notice that this valuable research is needed to prove that the global average temperature is going to rise half a degree over the next 100 years." JUST A HALF DEGREE?! Crap. Nerdygirl facing more snow shoveling and roof raking in Michigan. We were promised global warming and I goddam want it!

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (RxVu7)

253 241 Looks to be based on the Cthulhu plushes sold by Steve Jackson Games' Warehouse 23 site. Heh. I have a plush Nyarlathotep. Which probably illustrates a great deal about yrs. trly. --- I really need to order the Cthulhu dice bags from Warehouse 23... they'd go well with my Arkham Horror board game collection if I ever got the chance to play them anymore.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (/Crba)

254 244 Went through the airport today, CNN was reporting that "Shifting ice conditions delayed the expedition." Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2014 03:12 PM (W6bkf) What should have been included in that paragraph: "But did not alleviate the mental constipation that prompted it."

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:13 AM (/gJVs)

255 The rest was just synergy as better scammers than he needed a masthead and/or rainmaker and-

Viola!
The rest is history. Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2014 03:07 PM (KBvAm)


Hey oh!

Posted by: George "Wrinkles" Soros at January 02, 2014 11:14 AM (LSDdO)

256 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 02, 2014 03:13 PM (ZPrif)

I wish I could be sure that was sarcasm.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 02, 2014 11:14 AM (o3MSL)

257 I noticed this omission, I brought it up on a family vacation when it was on the news with my "environmentalist" mother in law.  She was not pleased.  It made my New Year.

I'll believe global warming is man made when a climate activists (er, scientists) can explain how we went into and came out of the Ice Age.  Somehow, the Earth cooled and then warmed considerably without human involvement.

Posted by: McAdams at January 02, 2014 11:14 AM (2XmIm)

258 Great news for Packers fans everywhere. They're keeping Cutler for seven long years.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 02, 2014 11:14 AM (P6QsQ)

259 193 Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 03:01 PM (TE35l) Hilarious, monday

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 02, 2014 11:14 AM (HVff2)

260 Also men and women are exactly the same! Gender is a social construct! Sex chromosomes are a myth!!! A lie invented by the White Man!

Posted by: Sciencetician! at January 02, 2014 11:15 AM (ZPrif)

261 245 250 nck woke me up this this news all I have to say is congrats to the packers for winning the north thru 2020 *****sob*****

Posted by: navycopjoe why god why? at January 02, 2014 11:15 AM (MX68J)

262 I should probably get the driveway shoveled out so I can pick up baby-boy Bigby, but I'm still drinking coffee.

grmmbl

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 11:15 AM (RLTt1)

263  48 41 Registered Voter at January 02, 2014 02:30 PM (0DC/m)

and they must have sincerely believed it or they would not have booked a ship that barely meets the qualification to run Polar waters at all let alone an ice breaker. It goes beyond belief.  It HAS to be true!  It just HAS to!

Posted by: Judgmental White Person at January 02, 2014 11:16 AM (XO6WW)

264 Ford's demo-ing a solar-powered car at CES. http://preview.tinyurl.com/lfaj3qm The solar cell on the car is 300W max. So in perfect conditions, you can't get a full "tank" out of a full day of charge. Progress!

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 11:16 AM (45N4D)

265 Posted by: McAdams at January 02, 2014 03:14 PM (2XmIm) Because shut up, that's how.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:16 AM (/gJVs)

266 I'll believe global warming is man made when a climate activists (er, scientists) can explain how we went into and came out of the Ice Age. Somehow, the Earth cooled and then warmed considerably without human involvement. Dino farts. Totes syria!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 02, 2014 11:16 AM (t+DWU)

267 264 Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 02, 2014 03:14 PM (HVff2)

Goes without saying...it is hilarious...

"why won't Earf Cooperate wif me?"

//DF Goreon on the SS Chilly Willy

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 11:17 AM (TE35l)

268 Sex chromosomes are a myth!!! A lie invented by the White Man! Posted by: Sciencetician! at January 02, 2014 03:15 PM (ZPrif) One can't help but notice just how many inventions the white man has....

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:17 AM (/gJVs)

269 I am just glad the Global Warming assholes are getting fucked and not me.

Posted by: The Chicken at January 02, 2014 11:17 AM (0FSuD)

270 OT, like I care, I just got a look at the Commie DeBlasio's wife for the first time. All I can say is - Ho Lee Fuk!

Posted by: tubal the bad at January 02, 2014 11:17 AM (YEQ2h)

271 Oh, also helping pad out the crew of super-elite sciency science stuff people on the Ship Of Fools was one Janet Rice.

Who is Janet Rice? A newly elected member of the Australian Senate.

From the Green Party, of course.

One of those lefty feminist enviro-dyke apparat-chicks who has passed age 50 without ever once in all that time having worked at anything that the rest of us would call a "real job". It's been the steady gravy train of government paychecks and NGOs the whole while.

People like this are being entrusted with real political power. Cometh the shitrain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Rice

Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 11:18 AM (gqT4g)

272

262 I'll believe global warming is man made when a climate activists (er, scientists) can explain how we went into and came out of the Ice Age. Somehow, the Earth cooled and then warmed considerably without human involvement.

NO! You FOOL!  Don't you SEE?!  The melting glaciers flooded over all the cars and factories that destroyed them and buried them in deep sediment where we can't find them!

Posted by: Judgmental White Person at January 02, 2014 11:18 AM (XO6WW)

273 O/T: California Supreme Court rules that illegals can be given law licenses. Irony just gave up completely. It's dead now. Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2014 03:08 PM (102Hx) -------- This is outrageous. They should not be 'given' these licenses. they should have to pay for them like they do the rest of their documents.

Posted by: RioBravo at January 02, 2014 11:18 AM (eEfYn)

274 Sex chromosomes are a myth!!! A lie invented by the White Man!

Posted by: Sciencetician! at January 02, 2014 03:15 PM (ZPrif)


----


Gawddammitt!!


That last little bit of cognitive dissonance ruptured the irony diaphragm in my sarcastometer.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 02, 2014 11:18 AM (nELVU)

275 Posted by: bonhomme at January 02, 2014 03:16 PM (45N4D)


Wait until it is the only thing you can buy (unless you have the correct government ID, of course)!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 02, 2014 11:18 AM (o3MSL)

276 Posted by: tubal the bad at January 02, 2014 03:17 PM (YEQ2h)

Now you know why he's a little "unbalanced".

He's looking for an out. Anything.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 02, 2014 11:19 AM (LSDdO)

277 >>>they'd go well with my Arkham Horror board game collection if I ever got the chance to play them anymore.

You should just skip the games and go on to summoning the Old Ones. I'd suggest chanting while watching a loop of Jumanji. Bonus: They'll chase off these New Gods that Ace is talking about and break loose that ship, too. Downside, well, let's let that pass...

Posted by: Bigby's Snow-Shoveling Hands at January 02, 2014 11:19 AM (RLTt1)

278 California Supreme Court rules that illegals can be given law licenses. They can receive them by barging into law school and homesteading for three years.

Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 11:19 AM (MMC8r)

279 Sex chromosomes are a myth!!! A lie invented by the White Man! Also a myth: numerous studies that show women perceive and react to stimuli differently than men. FMRI images showing different brain patterns as a result of certain stimuli too.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 11:19 AM (45N4D)

280 Again I wish I had been the one to say it but I'm glad it was said:

The rest of the world should have insisted that the rescue from the ice first be attempted by a solar-powered helicopter. For consistency's sake.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 11:20 AM (gqT4g)

281 Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 03:18 PM (gqT4g)

The Aussies used to be sane, and there are faint signs they may be returning to normalcy, but they probably reversed course too late.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 02, 2014 11:21 AM (o3MSL)

282 Rescuing these people was a crime against Darwin.

Posted by: --- at January 02, 2014 11:21 AM (MMC8r)

283 numerous studies that show women perceive and react to stimuli differently than men.

----

You dont say....

Posted by: Married Men EVERYFRICKENWHERE at January 02, 2014 11:21 AM (nELVU)

284 The greening of Communism was genius. Using guilt as a weapon to reduce the human desire for more and better stuff. And of course the necessity for Leviathan to harm our quality of life and livlihoods. Now the media even reports falling oil and gas prices as a bad thing. End disposable income now!

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 11:21 AM (sOtz/)

285 282 >>>they'd go well with my Arkham Horror board game collection if I ever got the chance to play them anymore. You should just skip the games and go on to summoning the Old Ones. I'd suggest chanting while watching a loop of Jumanji. Bonus: They'll chase off these New Gods that Ace is talking about and break loose that ship, too. Downside, well, let's let that pass... --- You just have to choose wisely. If some dumbass chooses Azaroth, for instance, we won't get the chance to beat their ass for their stupidity.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 02, 2014 11:21 AM (/Crba)

286 275 OT, like I care, I just got a look at the Commie DeBlasio's wife for the first time. All I can say is - Ho Lee Fuk! You know she is Bi, right? Use to be straight up dyke and then started fucking this guy. Her lesbo friends were not amused.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:22 AM (0FSuD)

287 271 I'll believe global warming is man made when a climate activists (er, scientists) can explain how we went into and came out of the Ice Age. Somehow, the Earth cooled and then warmed considerably without human involvement.


Dino farts. Totes syria! Posted by: rickb223

What's funny is I got into an argument with someone who fancied themselves an expert on climate change and brought up the "Ice Age" argument, and he actually said the CO2 from the Industrial Revolution ended the Ice Age in the mid 1800's. 

That's how absurd this "science" has become, yet we're the "knuckle-draggers".

Posted by: McAdams at January 02, 2014 11:22 AM (2XmIm)

288 285 Again I wish I had been the one to say it but I'm glad it was said: The rest of the world should have insisted that the rescue from the ice first be attempted by a solar-powered helicopter. For consistency's sake. Posted by: torquewrench at January 02, 2014 03:20 PM (gqT4g) I'd prefer to send a helicopter to drop them some oars and a dozen candy bars, bringing back footage for the rest of the world to laugh at.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:22 AM (/gJVs)

289 " the ship full of climate-change scientists could have spent New Year’s Eve despairing the dicey — and ironic — situation in which they’d found themselves"

In a way this sentence is wrong:    the ship is still there.

Posted by: jb at January 02, 2014 11:23 AM (3tdHf)

290 All that time and money, and all these twits got was real familiar with Russian amenities and a haunting fear that they might sink or freeze to death. Next time, go with the half-day whale watch package, wot, wot?

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 02, 2014 11:23 AM (ZshNr)

291 He's looking for an out. Anything.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 02, 2014 03:19 PM (LSDdO)I'd feel sorry for him, except for the Stalinist thing he's got going. The kid with the 70's "Good Times" 'fro must be his, I assume. (Or am I not allowed to notice shit like that?) by the tolerance er oblivious, brigade.......

Posted by: tubal the bad at January 02, 2014 11:24 AM (YEQ2h)

292 How does USPS fuck shit up so often? UPS can find your package anytime after it has shipped. USPS? Well, it could be here, or maybe it's there. We'll bring over when it gets to where we think it should be. What day? Ha ha, funny joke.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:25 AM (0FSuD)

293 Now the media even reports falling oil and gas prices as a bad thing. End disposable income now!

Posted by: Beagle at January 02, 2014 03:21 PM (sOtz/)


How can we plan a stable economy while the damn serfs still have any of their own money to spend on what they think they want when we know what they really need?


Sen Warren, get cracking on the IRA and 401k Income Equality Act legislation.  While you're at it, draft a version in Executive Order format as well.

Posted by: J Podpeopledesta at January 02, 2014 11:26 AM (o3MSL)

294 You know she is Bi, right? Use to be straight up dyke and then started fucking this guy. Her lesbo friends were not amused.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 03:22 PM (0FSuD)Aw shit...... so the guy's a commie and a dumb-fuck. I really didn't know any of this, except his politics. It's like a Fellini movie.

Posted by: tubal the bad at January 02, 2014 11:26 AM (YEQ2h)

295 After looking at the "stewardess" on the Russian ship, I can't decide if this ship is a meth lab or a prison. Maybe both?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:27 AM (0FSuD)

296 My bully-dog, she has the farts...cause of impending global catastrophe?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:27 AM (/gJVs)

297 Again something to bring me out and comment. I have been following this little hilarious benny hill meets Michael manns hockey stick skit for awhile now, mostly over at wattsupwiththat to get all the details and read the very intelligent comments by those who frequent Mr.Watts site. I myself don't understand all the very technical information that is commented on there but I get the jist of it all and from what I myself learned through my nearly 50 years of life and observing nature. These so called climate scientists are delusional, just like the way leftist politicians are (Obama, piglousy, dingy reid, washmyhair Schultz, etc...) and as bad as the oh so peacefull followers of the most peacefull religion in the universe, islam. I have known some pretty crazy people in my life but these climate clowns are way out there beyond the orbit of the Kuiperbelt. Hello MycFly! Don't you climate clowns just ever open your own eyes and witness what the weather is doing all around you or are your climate models so far up your asses that you just keep your eyes closed to be able to just see those models? I have NO college education at all and yet I know more than these assholes do! And these idiots have degrees in what? Flaming Stupidity you say? I believe it! My God man, with what you "believe" you may as well climb into a cage with a 1500lbs fully grown male polar bear and repeat to yourself "The bear will not maul me to death and devour me" over and over even while its eating you alive. Idiots! Rant over, my apologies but this is one subject that really pisses me off like no one can fathom as I see it as just another way for the leftists to control us all and butt rape us and our wallets at the same time. Pardon my French but I am in no way shape or form politically correct.

Posted by: Cycomiko66 at January 02, 2014 11:28 AM (x/MmU)

298 Falling oil and gas prices?

Gas prices where I am have gone UP.

This whole gas price thing needs looking into.

Someone's screwing with the system.

(and not just the commie kcuf at 1600 Penslyvania Ave.)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 02, 2014 11:29 AM (LSDdO)

299 Posted by: McAdams at January 02, 2014 03:22 PM (2XmIm)

That's weapons grade stupid there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Unexpurgated Edition) at January 02, 2014 11:31 AM (LSDdO)

300 Oh, one last thought, I wonder if the likes of Mann and Hansen and the other climate scientist idiots are going to deny its really happening if say the glaciers where bearing down on the Northern USA, 2 miles thick and maybe 100 yards from where they live, would they still claim its due to global warming? Dumb as a stump, all of them!

Posted by: Cycomiko66 at January 02, 2014 11:31 AM (x/MmU)

301 In a way this sentence is wrong: the ship is still there. So are the crew. Only the passengers were rescued. deBlasio's wife is kinda rough-looking.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 02, 2014 11:33 AM (45N4D)

302 #302 - That sir, was one damned fine weapons-grade rant. (Hat tip).

Posted by: tubal the bad at January 02, 2014 11:36 AM (YEQ2h)

303 deBlasio's wife. Affirmative Action lesbo. http://tinyurl.com/pv3ambe

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:38 AM (0FSuD)

304 The media is our worst enemy outside govt. Assuming the media can still be classified as being "outside govt".

Posted by: Meremortal, thow away your papers at January 02, 2014 11:42 AM (1Y+hH)

305 Who would have thought that 2013 would be the year that Iran would successfully send a monkey into space, and the western world would be denial-bound in a sea of sciency-science?

Posted by: Fritz at January 02, 2014 11:43 AM (TKFmG)

306 the 22 man crew has been instructed to shelter in place and brace the hull against implosion and capsizing if able.

This idiocy will probably yet yield a body count.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 02, 2014 02:34 PM (TE35l)


I am sure the Russian crew know what they are doing, and I'll bet they are glad to be rid of the pestilential "tourists". As long as the strong winds don't pile up the ice and crush the vessel, they will be OK. And the ice around them should melt and break up as the southern hemisphere summer advances.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2014 11:43 AM (8Fl6F)

307 @311 Don't they sometimes set charges of TNT to break up ice near the ship to give it some space to move and not get crushed?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 02, 2014 11:45 AM (0FSuD)

308 I'm reading the google excerpts of Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives By Paul R. Gregory. http://goo.gl/5iUOMC Nothing remarkable about them. They hooked up with monsters and suffered their same faith, i.e., torture and death. There's a lot of sex and shit. I don't know if it is due to the free love nature of commie-dom or whether people who conduct or look the other way to mass murder are uber horny. I will have to definitely get a copy of this.

Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 11:46 AM (Qev5V)

309 301 My bully-dog, she has the farts...cause of impending global catastrophe? Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 03:27 PM (/gJVs) Nah, she's just "monologue-ing."

Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 11:48 AM (Qev5V)

310

@291 You know she is Bi, right? Use to be straight up dyke and then started fucking this guy. Her lesbo friends were not amused.

-----------------

 

So in other words, she's the perfect poster female to rebut claims of, "But it's genetic!!1!"?

 

If someone runs with that, I'm going to laugh.

 

Posted by: junior at January 02, 2014 11:49 AM (UWFpX)

311 Climate change scientists are not delusional. They are experts at acquiring grant money. They don't believe any of this crap either. In the '70s they studied and warned of the coming "global cooling." They are busy adjusting from the failed and mocked global warming toward global cooling now. They just have to figure out how to raise grant money for the opposite of what they have been claiming for 20 years.

Posted by: Meremortal, throw away your paper at January 02, 2014 11:50 AM (1Y+hH)

312 Chris TurneyÂ’s wife Annette and two children Kara and Robert are also going with him to help blog, Tweet and broadcast about the experience for schools around the world.

Via Andrew Bolt.

Serious science, guys, seriously.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 02, 2014 02:43 PM (SUKHu)


In other words: a junket, largely paid for with taxpayers' dollars. And yeah, they might take a few scientific observations, too, especially if the data collected can be used to support the CAGW meme. Anything that might conflict will be either studiously ignored, or suppressed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2014 11:50 AM (8Fl6F)

313 314 301 My bully-dog, she has the farts...cause of impending global catastrophe? Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 03:27 PM (/gJVs) Nah, she's just "monologue-ing." Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 03:48 PM (Qev5V) Well, whatever it is, her last 'monologue' was a real stinker...

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:50 AM (/gJVs)

314 Anything that might conflict will be either studiously ignored, or suppressed. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 02, 2014 03:50 PM (8Fl6F) Or, dare I say, denied?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 02, 2014 11:53 AM (/gJVs)

315 If your dog is a girl, she doesn't fart -- she toots.

Posted by: Bean Pies, ey? at January 02, 2014 11:55 AM (Qev5V)

316 #307, thank you very much. Id prefer to see it as nuclear weapons grade as its been stored up inside for a very long time as I have watched quietly as the leftists have spewed some of the most ignorant and incredibly stupid remarks about the so called "man-made climate change". And watching them dare to call us deniers, flat-earthers and fear mongerers while all the time they flat out refuse to admit what is actually happening all about them weather wise and they are the ones calling for doom and gloom if the temps were to go up 2F or whatever numbers they toss out. Id much rather see global temps rise slightly, like they did in Roman and Midieval times when grapes could grow in England and the Vikings colonized Greenland than see the return of the Ice Ages as that would bring a definite problem for much of man kinds survival but the idiot climate scientists dwell in the land of bizzaro superman and everything is the complete opposite. I talked about the climate scientists being stuck on their little partyship as work today and many of the people there hadn't even heard about it, thanks to our leftist MFM keeping those inconvenient facts hidden, and when I brought out the facts I had learned so far about this situation, many of my co-workers either laughed at the outright stupidity of these scientists or where completely amazed at it. These idiots should be pointed at and laughed at for the rest of their lives for not only the outright ignorance and arrogance they have displayed but by the millions of dollars they have wasted on their little pleasure jaunt and the effort that had to go into their rescue. If it was left to me I would have left them there in their icy graves as I have no mercy or pity for fools. I leave that to God.

Posted by: Cycomiko66 at January 02, 2014 11:58 AM (x/MmU)

317

We need more ice layers in the Antartic.  Too many off-world things buried there that might get out.

 

The stay onboard Russian crew should be extra vigilant against any penguins,  seals, or sled dogs that appear  out  of    nowhere.  And start a blood  sample bank of everyone.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 02, 2014 12:13 PM (BAS5M)

318 Isn't there a Darwin Awards category for people who somehow live anyway? Seriously, these guys don't (apparently) even check to see what the ice situation is before heading into the most hostile environment on Earth? How do you even find a ship captain to sail you into that? Even the few stories that expose that it was a Global Warming mission seem to miss out on the fact that 2013 had the HIGHEST sea ice on record (the records going back to 1979). What kind of idiot goes to Antarctica to prove that the ice caps are melting, in a year with RECORD amounts of ice!?! I guess they believe their own BS, even putting their lives at risk in the process.

Posted by: Optimizer at January 02, 2014 12:32 PM (saDM3)

319 You cannot tell the global warming, climate change, polar bear melting warmest worshipers that they are not wearing any clothes.

Posted by: Buffalobob at January 02, 2014 12:38 PM (RZBmV)

320 Also, remember that this is the middle of the summer south of the equator...

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at January 02, 2014 12:56 PM (1hM1d)

321 And the ice around them should melt and break up as the southern hemisphere summer advances. I could be wrong about this, but IIRC, the polar summers do not last as long as non-polar summers. In other words, the average temperatures don't go up steadily over the month following the solstice like it does in more temperate climates.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at January 02, 2014 01:10 PM (V3kRK)

322 News Flash! Global warming freezes scientists nutz off! Even the women!

Posted by: Erowmero at January 02, 2014 03:19 PM (OONaw)

323 There is only irony if you incorrectly think that AGW means that there cannot be sea-ice capable of trapping a ship in ice in the Antarctic summer. There is only irony if you incorrectly think that the purpose of the expedition was to prove that there is no sea-ice in the Antarctic waters. The expedition expected sea-ice. They planned for it. They looked forward to it. They were thrilled and happy to encounter it. They brought along ATV's specifically to cross sea-ice. They knew their vessel could become ice-bound. It happened to another research vessel in 2012. The mocking of the scientists is ignorant and makes those who do the mocking look ignorant.

Posted by: Carson at January 06, 2014 08:45 AM (AZhsU)

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