Wednesday, May 28, 2008
So, the ecotourists are traveling through the Northwest Passage...
A boat full of ecotourists, sailing the Arctic to see the ice "before it is gone," get stuck in the supposedly thin and disappearing ice and cannot free themselves for seven days.
Bwahahahaha!
4 Comments:
By 
joated, at
Wed May 28, 09:18:00 PM:
1) Come on, you made that up!
2) What was the Captain's name, Franklin?
3) Was it a private tour with Al Gore on board?
By Tom the Redhunter, at
Wed May 28, 10:44:00 PM:
Don't you know that thicker ice is a side effect of global warming?
/sarcasm
By davod, at
Thu May 29, 08:13:00 AM:
A litle more from the link:
"...From the Globe and Mail article:
I am on the bridge of the massive Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, and the tension is palpable. We have hit ice - thick ice.
The ice master studies the mountains of white packed around the ship while the 24,000-horsepower diesel engines work at full throttle to open a path. The ship rises slowly onto the barrier of ice, crushes it and tosses aside blocks the size of small cars as if they were ice cubes in a glass. It creeps ahead a few metres, then comes to a halt, its bow firmly wedged in the ice. After doing this for two days, the ship can go no farther.
The ice master confers with the captain, who makes a call to the engine room. The engines are shut down. He turns to those of us watching the drama unfold, and we are shocked by his words: “Now, only nature can help this ship.” We are doomed to drift.
What irony. I am a passenger on one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world, travelling through the Northwest Passage - which is supposed to become almost ice-free in a time of global warming, the next shipping route across the top of the world - and here we are, stuck in the ice, engines shut down, bridge deserted. Only time and tide can free us...."
Maybe nature was just taking its course after all.
I am reminded of all the nature movies I used to see which showed the terrible wrath of nature. The cycle of rain and drought in Africa with the migration of animals and man linked to th flow of the weather.
The same process goes on all over the world to some degree, and has gone on for millions of years. Now its our fault?
The warmenist cult has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams. We are now facing years of economic and and social hardships due to the impost of high taxes and other efforts to curb manmade CO2. CO2 comprises 2 percent (maybe .2 percent of the gases in the atmosphere. Manmade CO2 comprises 2 percent of this 2 percent.
Doesn't anybody see a problem here?
By 
, at
Thu May 29, 04:07:00 PM:
Latest update on those eco-tourists stranded in the ice: they are under attack by polar bears migrating to escape population pressure from excess breeding.
Zhombre
