Jovial Monk wrote on Jul 21
st, 2017 at 8:05pm:
That was the story silly denialists told each other. It was scientists examining the sea ice.
Oops.
"Shortly before Christmas a team of climate scientists set out on an expedition to Antarctica aboard Russian ship MV Akademic Shokalskiy. Led by Chris Turney, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia and an evangelist for the green agenda, this group was accompanied by a number of journalists including several from the BBC and the Left-wing Guardian newspaper, as well as an Australian senator from the Green Party.
The explicit aim of the voyage, whose original costs were estimated to be £900,000, was to research the supposed impact of climate change on the southern polar region, particularly the alleged threat to ice coverage. There was "an increasing body of evidence" that showed "melting and collapse from global warming", proclaimed the Shokalskiy team prior to departure.
Such claims about the disappearing ice caps have long been a central tenet of the green faith. Typically eco-website Click Green reported in 2009 that marine plants were now flourishing in Antarctica "because of the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the peninsula". But this hysteria about the vanishing Antarctic ice turned out to be wrong. Professor Turney and his acolytes were lured into an embarrassing fiasco by their own neurotic creed. On Christmas Eve, little more than a fortnight after the start of its voyage, the Shokalskiy became wedged in thick ice. As the weather worsened so did the crisis on board."
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/452238/Global-warming-...There were also posts from the Green's Senator detailing what went wrong.
"With escalating derision towards Turney’s expedition, Nature rushed another self-serving account of the events into print on January 6, apparently without the slightest peer review, quality control or due diligence. In this article, Turney’s claims became even more fanciful and untrue. Turney falsely stated that the Akademik Shokalskiy was an “ice breaker”, even though it was merely a passenger ship that had been ice strengthened. Turney falsely claimed that the “science case” for the tour had been “approved by the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service and the Australian Antarctic Division”, an assertion that was quickly denied by the head of the Australian Antarctic Division, who accused Turney of misrepresentation and said that he had written to Turney asking him to cease such misrepresentations. In respect to the entrapment incident, Turney re-iterated the false assertion that they had been trapped by a “mass breakout” of “multiyear ice”, whereas ...they had been trapped by mobile pack ice within the polynya [an area of open water surrounded by sea ice">... "
"Meanwhile, according to [Greens senator-elect"> Janet Rice, the Captain became very concerned about the closing weather, but was unable to immediately recall the passengers. The vessel appears to have left at least several hours after the captain’s already risky target.
The third drama of the day is the one which is still unfolding. Because of the Argo mishap we got off late, and had one less vehicle to ferry people to and fro. I’m told the Captain was becoming rather definite late in the afternoon that we needed to get everyone back on board ASAP because of the coming weather and the ice closing in… I’m sure the Captain would have been much happier if we had got away a few hours earlier. Maybe we would have made it through the worst before it consolidated as much as it has with the very cold south- easterly winds blowing the ice away from the coast, around and behind us as well as ahead. "
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/mcintyre-shreds-chris-turneys-excu...Trying to rewrite history?
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