Ship of Fools

[999969999]

So, I get back to see my family in Eagar, and I'm watching the evening news about these idiots who got their ship stuck in the ice in Antarctica, and as it turns out they were global warming enthusiasts (yes, some of them were there not as scientists nor crew, but on a joyride of sorts) and climate change "scientists" (I used quotes because they are bought and paid for by people who have an agenda, and if they dared to publish anything contrary to the party line about climate change, they would lose their funding). They went there during the southern hemisphere's summer solstice in hopes of seeing the ice melting, for some good photo-ops for the media, and in an ironic twist of fate, the slushy water around their ship froze solid trapping them in ice.

What a laugh I had about it.

The disturbing part about this is how much of the mainstream media has been bought off and controlled by the people who have an agenda behind this man-made climate change mythology.




"Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission



A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks’ reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change.

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 New 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.”

Twenty-two crew members stayed with the ship for the time being, as the scientists and researchers were rescued. According to CNN, the ship has enough supplies for “a very long time.”

Three rescue attempts had been thwarted by growing levels of sea ice and weather conditions.

"Outside, blizzard conditions packing an abnormal amount of ice in to the area for this time of the year, summer in the Antarctic," ABC News Correspondent Gio Benitez reported on “Good Morning America” Dec. 31.

On Jan. 2, all 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby Australian icebreaker ship which had tried, and failed, to plow through the ice and free the Akademic Shokalskiy, on Dec. 30. “Good Morning America” said on Dec. 30, that “the ice could be as thick as 13 feet.”

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.”

There was only one news story out of 41 that mentioned climate change. That was CBS “This Morning” Dec. 30. “Despite being frozen at a standstill, the team’s research on climate change and Antarctic wildlife is moving forward,” CBS News Correspondent Don Dahler said. That night, all three evening news programs still failed to make any mention of the group’s climate change research.

The MRC’s Business and Media Institute was unable to view a copy of CBS “Sunday Morning” for Dec. 29, so that broadcast had to be excluded from the tally.

Before their ship got stuck in ice, the researchers were following the trail of the explorer Douglas Mawson, who was stranded in Antarctica for more than a year, beginning in December 1912, according to the website about the expedition.



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[mjmacky]

It's a little late to play the, "ha global warming, pshhh" card to be of any real effect. You would be far too marginalized.

Perhaps you should go on about how ER visits should be the primary mode of medical care in the US and Medicare/Medicaid should be abolished. If you came back a couple of weeks ago, you could have ranted about Santa's guaranteed whiteness.

[megabyteme]

and if they dared to publish anything contrary to the party line about climate change, they would lose their funding. They went there during the southern hemisphere's summer solstice in hopes of seeing the ice melting, for some good photo-ops for the media, and in an ironic twist of fate, the slushy water around their ship froze solid trapping them in ice.

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.”

Do you even read/think before doing a c&p, 9's?

[mjmacky]

Do you even read/think before doing a c&p, 9's?

Understanding isn't exactly part of his MO or purpose.

[megabyteme]

IKR.

news about these idiots who got their ship stuck in the ice in Antarctica[...] They went there during the southern hemisphere's summer solstice[...] the slushy water around their ship froze solid trapping them in ice.

If I were trying to get a ship to ANTARCTICA, I would attempt it during the longest day of summer. When do "smart" people do this sort of thing?

Twenty-two crew members stayed with the ship for the time being, as the scientists and researchers were rescued. According to CNN, the ship has enough supplies for “a very long time.”

If I were to study the effects of "changes taking place in the south", I'd plan to spend some time there. Not:

hopes of seeing the ice melting, for some good photo-ops for the media

Thanks for demonstrating grandpa's money is going to complete waste good use on you, 9's.

[999969999]

So, tell me why you think the liberal media went out of their way to not mention that the fools were part of a global warming scientific expedition?

If they had found what they were hoping to find, the media would have been crowing about it, and would have made that the main focus of their news story.

The bias and the leftist agenda of the media has become a bit too obvious.

And let's see you try to spin this one to the left:

"MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Residents of the Midwestern United States on Sunday braced for the coldest weather in two decades, temperatures that forecasters warned would be life-threatening.

Icy conditions snarled travel across the region and thousands of flights were canceled or delayed, some officials preemptively closed schools, and at a New York City airport a plane skidded off a runway into snow days after the Northeast was hammered by the first winter storm of the season.

"The coldest temperatures in almost two decades will spread into the northern and central U.S. today behind an arctic cold front," the National Weather Service said in an advisory posted on its website on Sunday. "Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit/ -51 Celsius)."

[piercerseth]

Being on the receiving end of said 'coldest weather,' I've read it's being attributed to a phenomena known as Pacific decadal oscillation. Totally cyclical, and right when and how they said it would occur. I'd bitch about shoveling 16" snow in the last 24hrs with a -19F ambient, but the Canadian posters would just say, "Seth stop being a pussy" while laughing me outta the forum. Probably with a mouthful of Tim Hortons or whatever they eat. Poutine. I digress.


EDIT: I guess there's an arctic oscillation at play as well. I get why they model this shit with super computers. But hey, you could always just blame HAARP. or contrails.

[megabyteme]

So, tell me why you think the liberal media went out of their way to not mention that the fools were part of a global warming scientific expedition?

If you aren't trying to be a comedian, it isn't that instrumental to the story. The fact that the scientists in charge were being interviewed may indicate that it wasn't covered up too much.

And let's see you try to spin this one to the left:

"MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Residents of the Midwestern United States on Sunday braced for the coldest weather in two decades

It is called winter. The same statement also indicates that it has been WARMER for the past two decades. Again...

Also, what science allows you to pick and chose which numbers (locations) you wish to emphasize in your "research", 9's?

[IdolEyes787]

I'd bitch about shoveling 16" snow in the last 24hrs with a -19F ambient, but the Canadian posters would just say, "Seth stop being a pussy" while laughing me outta the forum. Probably with a mouthful of Tim Hortons or whatever they eat. Poutine. I digress.

No we would be more likely to laugh at you for clinging to an antiquated system of measurement and then profusely apologize for being so insensitive.

Probably also wonder why the U.S. still produces an overabundance of right wing extremist wackjobs who seemingly need to blame someone for their real or imagined problems and seeing that convenient ones like Jews,Blacks and Gays are now verboten, lay the blame on "The Left".

[piercerseth]

No we would be more likely to laugh at you for clinging to an antiquated system of measurement and then profusely apologize for being so insensitive. Probably also wonder why the U.S. still produces an overabundance of right wing extremist wackjobs who seemingly need to blame someone for their real or imagined problems and seeing that convenient ones like Jews,Blacks and Gays are now verboten, lay the blame on "The Left".

To be fair to us, we do conduct most of our drug transactions in metric. Baby steps. I lay no claim to the wackjobs and I don't get why he's so angry.