Pure comedy. You have to wonder if people even read what they write. From the Planet In Peril portion of CNN: Team battles Arctic winter to measure melting ice caps
It could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap.
Um, what?
It could be the ultimate test of human endurance: Three British explorers are risking their lives in subzero temperatures to measure the melting Arctic ice cap.
I thought that is what I read.
The team is on a three-month, 621-mile (1,000-kilometer) hike to their final destination at the North Pole. Along the way, taking precise measurements to determine exactly how fast the ice cap is disappearing.
“It’s extremely difficult to live out here. It’s very, very easy to get cold injuries in seconds,” said Martin Hartley, team photographer and filmmaker, via satellite phone.
The team has been braving temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit/Celsius spending their nights sleeping in tents and their days trudging across the shifting, barren polar expanse.
The unique expedition was prompted by this chilling prospect: The Arctic ice cap is melting at an unprecedented rate, which may lead to a dramatic shift in average global temperatures.
So, it’s really, really, really cold, the kind of cold that risks lives. They are traveling over the ice all the way to the North Pole to measure the supposed melting ice, which they happen to be traveling across. Did I mention that they are traveling across the ice that is supposedly melting at an unprecedented rate, while it is really, really, really cold? I’m going to steal some material from Gateway Pundit
Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979.
The oceans have been cooling since 2003.
Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record.
Greenland’s glaciers are stabilizing.
There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age.
Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years.
And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, cooling… not warming.
In other AGW news, a former supervisor of NASA’s Jim Hansen thinks he should be fired for violating ethic, if not legal, boundaries of the job.
