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 cjjeepercreeper
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Joined: Nov 27, 2006
Member#: 2665
Posts: 6146
Location: At the Mountains of Madness
   
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject: Here's a good one for the global warming alarmists |
 
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I hate posting news articles, but this is kind of a compilation of news articles and some commentary. My commentary on this? Maybe the nut ought to get Al Gore to come rescue him!
*British Yachtsman who Counted on Global Warming to Cross Arctic Now
Trapped by Ice*
*NewsBusters ^
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2007/09/04/british-yachtsman-who-counted-global-warming-cross-arctic-now-trapped
*| September 4, 2007 | P.J. Gladnick
Posted on *09/04/2007 5:08:45 AM PDT* by *PJ-Comix*
In one of the most hilarious cases of being tripped up by dubious
scientific hype, British yachtsman Adrian Flanagan attempted to be the
first to sail across the arctic north of Russia. He based his hope on
the fact that he believed in the Global Warming propaganda that the
arctic is rapidly losing its ice thus making his trip possible. One
little problem. Cold cruel reality has crushed the Global Warming hype
and now Flanagan's boat is trapped by ice in the arctic. To add to the
irony, Flanagan who seems to be destined to go down in history as Wrong
Way Flanagan, is now pleading with Russian authorities to provide him
with the services of a nuclear powered icebreaker to get him out of his
embarrassing situation.
As recently as August 18, Wrong Way Flanagan's hopes were still high
that he could sail across the arctic north of Russia. Moscow News
announced his trip in an article
http://mnweekly.ru/news/20070816/55267943.html ironically titled,
/Global Warming is Here./
A British yachtsman, Adrian Flanagan, is due shortly to head off
from Chukotka to attempt the first solo sail through the Northern
Sea Route.
While one Chukotka port official described this as "kamikaze,"
Flanagan too is optimistic. Contacted by AFP he said that the ice
looked set to recede at least as far as in 2005, which was a record
year. But while some see opportunities, others are already counting
the costs of climate change.
Flash forward to today and we can see the sticky situation that Wrong
Way Flanagan put himself into by placing his faith in Global Warming to
clear his path in the arctic as chronicled
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22359472-5005961,00.html
by Australia's Herald Sun in an article with the sobering title of /Ice
blocks British solo sailor/:
*A BRITISH yachtsman attempting the first solo Arctic sea passage
across northern Russia was examining his options after heavier than
expected ice blocked his route, his manager said.*
Adrian Flanagan is discussing with Russian authorities the
possibility of using a nuclear-powered icebreaker to lift his boat
out of the water and carry it round the most icebound stretch of
Russia's Northern Sea Route.
...He had hoped that his 11m reinforced yacht would be able to get
all the way to Europe due to lighter ice conditions observed in
recent years, thought to be a result of global warming.
But after making his way through the Chukchi, East Siberian and
Laptev Seas, Flanagan has been forced to a halt by heavy ice at the
most difficult point in the route, the Vilkitsky Strait.
...Flanagan is now anchored by an island just east of the Vilkitsky
Strait, still hoping for the ice to clear but working on the backup
plan, his manager said.
She described the yachtsman's mood as “pretty fed-up”.
Besides the arctic ice, Wrong Way Flanagan now appears to have another
problem. Remember those polar bears that Global Warming activists were
warning us were endangered? Well, it now seems that the tables have been
turned and those endangered polar bears are now endangering
http://www.cowes.co.uk/zonexml/story?cp=0;story_id=3228 Flanagan:
Ostrov Peschanyy is a bleak, featureless island that is little more
than a sand spit rising a few metres above sea level. It's a resting
place for walrus and Western Arctic Marine Operations HQ have
advised Adrian to keep a careful watch for polar bears hunting
walrus there.
So as Wrong Way Flanagan, who has turned himself into a Global
Laughingstock on the altar of Global Warming, remains trapped in the
arctic perhaps someone would be kind enough send him a copy of Al Gore's
/An Inconvenient Truth /for him to pass the time while waiting for the
ice to melt and for the endangered polar bears to go away.
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 Pesadelo 
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Joined: Feb 18, 2007
Member#: 3090
Posts: 1955
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: Here's a good one for the global warming alarmists |
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="cjjeepercreeper"
I hate posting news articles, but this is kind of a compilation of news articles and some commentary. My commentary on this? Maybe the nut ought to get Al Gore to come rescue him!
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Clark Kent, thank you (super)man!
We are many (human-virus) but the planet is large. Flanagan could have done a wrong move, but such a huge environment (earth) has a inertial behavior, and it's just over there the danger leaves. The problem about what we are doing today is not what this causes today, but tomorrow. Further, we know less than enough about planet cycles and we could be collaborating with them.
Anyway, what about send a laptop to Flanagan in order to him listen DFM while waits help?  |
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