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TWO Icebreakers Filled with Climatologists Get Stuck in the Not-so-Melting Ice. Didn’t Check the Evidence…?
In early December 2013, the Russian ship Akademik Schokalskij embarked on an excursion towards Antarctica. On board a group of climate scientists led by the Australian climate scientist and adventurer Chris Turney, some eco-tourists and environmental journalists.
One of the objectives was to gather evidence of the impact of global warming on the polar ice. But instead of melting glaciers, they met with outreaching pack ice, which on Christmas Eve completely enclosed the researchers’ ship and solidified it as a whimsical metal sculpture in a vast icy landscape. The Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon, which they called for help over satellite, got stuck too. With helicopters, the passengers of the Akademik were evacuated to Aurora…. (see pic below taken one year after this one
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Mabe these ‘climatologists have trouoble with reality?
http://www.thegwpf.org/polar-ice-growing-upsetting-climatologists-happy/
The ships were blocked by a broken off and floating iceberg and were able to leave when the wind shifted. But maybe we should fight more wars to steal and burn more oil so we don’t all freeze.