Global warming irony - Party of Warmists on MV Akademik Schokalskiy stuck in thick ice sheet. Dec 2013 20131229 http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/scientists-trapped-in-record-sea-ice-announce-that-it-is-disappearing/ Scientists Trapped In Record Sea Ice Announce That It Is Disappearing Comment: So, they're admitting the MV Akademik Shokalskiy will have to be abandoned, which means it will likely be crushed by ice and sunk. But they are still saying 'sea ice is disappearing'. Hmmm... You know, the latter comment about 'increasing sea ice' directly contradicts that, and the part about 'making the water almost fresh enough to drink'.... Either this person is incredibly stupid and ignorant of basic physics, OR he's doing something like a prisoner winking while being forced to utter lies about how great his captors are treating him. Every oceanographer would know that as sea water freezes to the bottom of ice floes, there is excess salt remaining. This often forms dense, cold brine down-currents that are actually visible to divers. Or are these ice floes miraculously getting thicker while melting away? It's good the Aurora's captain wasn't risking getting his ship stuck too. Currently it's supposed to be summer in the Southern Hemisphere. 20131230 http://investmentwatchblog.com/update-global-warming-scientists-forced-to-admit-defeat-because-of-too-much-ice-blizzard-conditions-record-low-temperatures-set-in-green-bay-other-areas/ 'Global warming' scientists forced to admit defeat -- because of too much ice... 'Blizzard conditions'... Record low temperatures set in Green Bay, other areas. 20131230 http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/aurora-australis-abandons-attempt-to-save-akademik-shokalskiy-in-antarctica-20131230-302na.html 20131231 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531159/Antarctic-crew-build-ice-helipad-help-rescuers.html 20131231 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531589/Antarctic-ship-passengers-rescued-tomorrow.html Passengers on stranded Antarctic research ship could be rescued by helicopter tomorrow... but won't see dry land for weeks They had hoped the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis would be able to crack through the thick ice and allow them to continue on their way. The Aurora came within 20km (12 miles) of the ship on Monday, but fierce winds and snow forced it to retreat to open water. Today, the weather remained bleak, and the crew on the Aurora said their vessel would also be at risk of getting stuck if it made another rescue attempt. The Snow Dragon, which is waiting with the Aurora at the edge of the ice pack, was also unable to crack through the ice, as was France's L'Astrolabe. 20131231 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/12/30/stuck-in-our-own-experiment-leader-trapped-team-insists-polar-ice-is-melting/ Raising on a busted flush! Leader of trapped team insists polar ice is melting 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. WRH: Chris Turney was funded for this expedition to "prove" global warming was melting the Antarctic ice shelf and no number of ships stuck and wrecked by the ice is going to make him doubt his benefactors! 20140101 http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34874/Warmists-Stuck-in-a-Sea-of-Denial/ Warmists Stuck in a Sea of Denial So a number of prominent warmists set sail on an icebreaker ship to check on the thinning of the Antarctic ice cap. What they discovered was that the ice was actually thicker than expected. And then they got stuck. If these warmists were in search of the perfect headline to convince credulous masses that global warming was thinning both the North and South Pole, they miscalculated. They created a headline nonetheless, but surely not the one they wanted. The vision of so many top warmists stranded on a ship, stuck amidst the icebergs they swore were thinning, provides skeptics with an ironic episode that rarely presents itself. 20140103 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2014/01/02/frozen-out-98-stories-ignore-ice-bound-ship-was-global-warming-missi 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. 20140103 http://m.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/weather/antarctica-rescue-xue-long-calls-for-help-after-becoming-stuck-while-trying-to-help-akademik-shokalskiy-20140103-309dl.html Antarctica rescue: Xue Long calls for help after becoming stuck while trying to help Akademik Shokalskiy Chinese polar resupply ship Xue Long has flagged for the first time that it may need help, after spending days among Antarctic pack ice after coming to the aid of private expedition ship Akademik Shokalskiy. The 15,000-tonne Xue Long notified the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on Friday afternoon that it had concerns about its ability to move through heavy ice. 20140105 http://english.cri.cn/6909/2014/01/04/2361s806546.htm China Sets up Team to Rescue Stranded Icebreaker 20140105 http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/january-1st-global-sea-ice-area-was-the-highest-ever-measured-during-the-month-of-january/ January 1st Global Sea Ice Area Was The Highest Ever Measured During The Month Of January Posted on January 4, 2014 by stevengoddard January 1st global sea ice area was 17,932,000 km², which is the highest ever recorded during the month of January. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008 Climate experts say that unprecedented Mann-made global warming is causing record ice, record cold, record snow, record low tornadoes and hurricanes, and record numbers of global warmists stuck in the ice.