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a bit of COLD history.

Steve

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what do the three ships have in common?

The Australian government's resupply ship Aurora Australis is now en route to make one final bid to free the icebound boat and is expected to reach the Akademik today.

The Aurora Australis has abandoned its first attempt to cut through the ice surrounding the stranded Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica after moving just two nautical miles.

"The ice became too thick for us to penetrate. Some of the floes are up to two metres of ice with a metre of snow on top and very compact.
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"There was just nowhere for us to go."

and a bit older ship..
SY Aurora

In 1910, she was bought by Douglas Mawson for his Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

In December 1912, the Aurora returned to find that Douglas Mawson, Xavier Mertz, and Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis had set out on a sled expedition, and were overdue on their return. The captain attempted to wait for the expedition to return, but poor anchorage and extremely strong winds combined to cause a number of anchor chains to break. At the end of January the ship had to leave or risk getting stuck for the winter.

sounds like a fine ship.. making dozens of famous expeditions to Antarctica

in a comically ironic twist of fate...

we have a ship that went to Antarctica and returned often..

a Ice breaker with the same name.. (a namesake perhaps in honor of the famous Australian Douglas Mawson.)

now a person may wonder why this is ironic...

well now we need to look at the other ship...
Scientists Trapped in Antarctic Ice.

The Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been on a research expedition to Antarctica.

yep a bunch of scientist on summer break.. yep folks it is summer down under.. (which includes Antarctica)

but what was the ship doing out there this summer..
The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

now that is funny... global warming scientists stuck in the SUMMER Sea Ice ..


now for the "rest of the story"

The scientific team on board the research ship — which left New Zealand on Nov. 28 — had been recreating Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's century-old voyage to Antarctica when it became trapped.

National Geographic bluntly states the mission purpose:

...The current crop of explorers are hoping to document some of the same data and compare them to Mawson's numbers, "using the twist of modern technology," Turney told National Geographic earlier this month.

As may be expected, global warming might play a role in this, he suggests, particularly with respect to melted ice in the East Antarctic.

now that is comically ironic.. the global warming scientist hoped to re-create Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's century-old voyage to Antarctica on the Aurora, when it became trapped.

and the ship sent to rescue it.. the Aurora Australis had to turn back..

now that is a bit of embarrassing news for the left..
 

hypocritexposer

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Maybe some "aurora australis" would provide some much needed energetically charged particles, which might melt some of the ice they are trapped in... :wink:
 

Steve

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Maybe they need to wait for Summer.. when the ice melts..

In Antarctica, sea ice grows quite extensively during winter but nearly completely melts away during the summer

ops forgot it is already summer down under..
 

Steve

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maybe the scientists could look out at the FACTS and see they may be wrong...

'Stuck in our own experiment': Leader of trapped team insists polar ice is melting

The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is "stuck in our own experiment."

But Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Australia’s University of New South Wales, said it was “silly” to suggest he and 73 others aboard the MV Akademic Shokalskiy were trapped in ice they’d sought to prove had melted. He remained adamant that sea ice is melting, even as the boat remained trapped in frozen seas.

“We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

yep if you want to "study" global warming.. try Hawaii.. they don't have much of that ICE stuff to get stuck in...
 

Steve

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News you don't get ..

Year of the icebreaker

Despite all the little warmist wuzzies hyperventilating about ice extent, this is beginning to look as if it is the year of the icebreaker. We've had the Okhotsk Sea, then the Baltic and now St. Petersburg at the eastern end of the sea.

From there we get reports that icebreakers have been called in to free dozens of ships that have become trapped in ice in the Gulf of Finland. At least 97 ships were still waiting for help as of Tuesday, although this is down from 160 ships two days previously.

The eastern Gulf of Finland has not seen such thick ice since 1992, according to the Federal of Sea and River Transportation Agency. In some places the ice is more than three feet thick. The strength of the pressure exerted by the ice is measured at three points — a serious threat for the exteriors of the vessels, so we are not talking about a jolly little rest cure here. Think bent metal, big 'oles and bubbles.

The icy conditions also have significant economic impact, which is making shipping operators wish rather fervently for more less warming ... to bring a reduction in the ice.

Most of the trapped ships are cargo vessels, but some are passenger ferries. Many have been trapped for a several days. Among the ships freed over the weekend was a ferry that had been stuck for six days with 12 people on board, including a pregnant woman. The ferry runs between a port near St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad region.

The Princess Maria ferry running between St. Petersburg and the Finnish capital, Helsinki, has been suspended since 9 March, but was due to resume its operation on Wednesday.

The federal agency says that ten icebreakers, including the nuclear-powered Vaigach based in Murmansk, were leading the ships to open water in caravans. Andrei Kovalyov of Rosmorport, a state company overseeing seaports, said passenger ferries and ships with hazardous cargo were being given priority.

Given this sudden rush of global warming, for those who might be considering their long-term future and looking for a stable career, with prospects, at the moment "icebreaker crew" looks extremely promising (although you might find it difficult to convince people you were serious if you said you worked on the Mudyug - icebreaker pictured, top). Ice fishing (pictured) also looks good.

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Mudyug.jpg

sure is a good thing that it is getting warmer or we would be in big trouble with a new ice age.
 

Steve

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why do some mock the global warming "experts"

Globul warmings is SO EVUL!!!!

Not only does it cause everything that can possibly happen in the entire world, but when it comes to melting polar ice like it’s supposed to, it REFUSES TO DO ITS JOB just to spite some poor, innocent holidaymakers!

More than 150 passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica.

The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.

Gap Adventures said that before Friday’s incident, the tour group had visited the Falkland Islands to spot black-browed albatrosses, before going to South Georgia to see Shackleton’s grave and the king penguin colonies.

Coastguards said the weather conditions were good for this time of year.

Some more great stories of the risk of global warming..

British Yachtsman Who Counted On Global Warming to Cross Arctic Now Trapped by Ice

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2007/09/04/british-yachtsman-who-counted-global-warming-cross-arctic-now-trapped-#ixzz2p1tv9ii7

this sarcastic guy has a fairly long list of liberals stuck in the ice..
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/tag/cruise-ship-stuck-in-ice/

“Irony can be so ironic sometimes…”

http://scottthong.wordpress.com/tag/cruise-ship-stuck-in-ice/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2007/09/04/british-yachtsman-who-counted-global-warming-cross-arctic-now-trapped-
 

burnt

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"The Australian icebreaker can cut ice up to 1.6 metres thick
but the Akademik is estimated to be surrounded by ice of between
three and four metres.

Aurora Australis captain Murray Doyle said Saturday
that his vessel was not built to tackle ice thicker than three metres,
likening it to driving a car into a brick wall."

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/20525432/anxious-wait-for-stranded-antarctic-ship/
 
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