Yet more denialist crud.
When will these fools learn to tell the difference between weather and climate?
Global Warming leads to wilder swings in weather, and that translates as cold events too!
Open your eyes and put your brain in gear!
The ice surrounding the ship doesn't mean that Antarctica's not melting.
FoxNews.com reported that global warming deniers have poked fun at the scientists, highlighting the irony of climate change scientists being trapped in ice.
But expedition leader Chris Turney said that the team's situation may have been in part due to warming oceans, which broke an iceberg into smaller pieces that the wind then swept against the ship.
Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, added by email that "any comments about overall ice shrinking or increasing are absurd in this situation.
"In the Antarctic, the ice is not limited by land and it is well established that winds blow the ice around. Winds from the south, especially off the continent, carry ice away from the continent and create more ice behind, filling in any gaps."
Antarctic travel is really, really unpredictable.
Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place on Earth, and extreme blizzards can arise out of nowhere. Such a storm prevented the Australian icebreaker from getting any closer to the stranded ship.
"We have learned from nature, as humankind always does," Peacock said, that it's possible to be "caught by an unexpected and not predicted" situation.
"We were," he said, "in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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