A Great Year For Antarctic Ice….
A Tough Year For Warmist Tourists!

Oh, the folly, oh the ignominy: Earlier this year, a flotilla of lightweight boats filled with yuppie Warmist tourists became stranded off Canada when the NorthWest passage failed to open according to the pronouncements of the Gore-Acle (“Open, Sesame-Street!”), necessitating rescue by Canadian ice breaker.

We’d call that a bad omen for folks testing the extent of melting of the polar caps, but it made no impression on Australian professor Chris Turney, who took family, friends, and press along on a Warmist-Tourist cruise to retrace the 1911-1913 expedition of Australian Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson.

In spite of the gathering clouds (almost literally) for the Warmists, Turney was able to raise $1.5M for his mission to document the effects of global warming upon the Antarctic ice. Problem was, being more of a vanity event for the sycophantic press, he rented a low grade Arctic tourism ship from the Russians, which barely met the minimum standards of an ice breaker.

When the tourists made a second visit to the Mawson base camp just before Christmas, the Russian captain was nervous, and his foreboding proved to be accurate: The ice closed in, the tourists were slow to heed his requests to pack up and leave, and the boat got well and truly stuck in ice which soon reached ten feet in thickness.

Next up, the brawnier Chinese ice breaker “Snow Dragon”, which, even in the absence of actual Dragon’s breath, managed to get within six miles of the Russian ship. Plans were made to evacuate the tourists to the Snow Dragon, but by the time arrangements were complete, it,too, was stuck in the ever thickening ice. (And, remember, we’re talking about the equivalent of July 4th weather in the Antarctic.)

At this point, the even tougher “Aurora Australis” came to the rescue, and the role of the Chinese crew was reduced to helicopter transportation for the tourists between the original Russian ship and the Australian breaker, which got as close as was prudent, but didn’t get itself stuck.

The Australians are now on their way home, and no further effort is being expended to extricate the Chinese or Russian vessels, possibly because it would draw even more attention to the growing and thickening polar ice caps! The press is certainly unwilling to talk about the Global Warming mission of the ill-fated expedition, even as they are forced to report on the rescue(s).

Aside from a Warmist-Tourist debacle at each ice cap, just how bad is the news for Climate-Change-ologists? Well, the UK Daily Mail has been needling the warmists for a year or more, and ran an excellent graphic showing how reality was crashing outside even the lowest temperature projections of the myriad Warmist computer models!
This updated graphic is courtesy of the excellent folks at CFACT.org, who also have complete coverage of the Antarctic Follies of Professor Turney.