The Original Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living Portal (since 2009)
akademik shokalskiy, Tag
- The cause of the Akademik Shokalskiy getting stuck in Antarctica – delay from sightseeing mishaps and dawdling by the passengers getting back on ship Fri, 3 Jan 14, 1:13pmThis pretty much nails the cause of the situation, and blows expedition leader Chris Turney’s claim about being “surprised” about the situation literally out of the water...
- Rescue ship Aurora Australis slowed to a crawl – fighting heavy sea ice to reach open water Fri, 3 Jan 14, 10:32amShip with 52 rescued Akademik Shokalskiy climate scientists and tourists is only able to make 1/4 knot (0.29 mph) in heavy ice towards open water. Latest webcam views show all ice all around the ship and no open water ahead....
- Now that the ‘Ship of Fools’ is safe in Antarctica, tough questions need to be asked Fri, 3 Jan 14, 3:27amSince the Guardian reporters shown above probably won’t do anything but complain about beds and lack of milkshakes (that video has now been “disappeared”) while writing glowing reports about the “adventure”...
- Newsbytes: Ship Of Fools Rescued At Last Fri, 3 Jan 14, 1:29amAn Icy Blast Of Scepticism Greets Climate Expedition Rescuers in Antarctica have safely transferred all 52 passengers stranded on the ice-bound research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy...
- WUWT and WeatherBell help KUSI-TV with a weather forecasting request from ice-trapped ship in Antarctica Akademik Shokalskiy Wed, 1 Jan 14, 6:23pmToday, while shopping at lunchtime for some last minute year end supplies, I got one of the strangest cell-phone calls ever. It was from my friend John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel and Chief meteorologist at...
- Josh channels the Antarctic boat people Wed, 1 Jan 14, 5:22amJosh writes: The Akademik Shokalskiy is much in the news, see here, here and this WUWT post with an update here. So what better way to summarise the CAGW movement this year. And last year, and the year before that… ...
- Josh channels the boat people Wed, 1 Jan 14, 5:22amJosh writes: The Akademik Shokalskiy is much in the news, see here, here and this WUWT post with an update here. So what better way to summarise the CAGW movement this year. And last year, and the year before that… ...
- The Antarctic ‘research’ fiasco – ‘would you, could you, in a boat’? Tue, 31 Dec 13, 5:05amAs we reported previously on WUWT here and here, the saga of the “climate scientists/tourists trapped in ice” continues to fascinate many. Now a second ship has given up on rescue, after the Chinese ship “Snow...
- Saving the Antarctic scientists, er media, er, activists, er tourists trapped by sea ice Mon, 30 Dec 13, 6:04amUPDATE: get a load of the hilarious announcement from the expedition, where they claim sea ice is disappearing, see update 2 below. There’s quite an ongoing worldwide fascination over the So much sea ice in Antarctica...
- So much sea ice in Antarctica that a research vessel gets stuck, in summer! Fri, 27 Dec 13, 3:35amIt is summer in the southern hemisphere and yet there is still signifiicantly above normal amounts of sea ice present as the passengers and crew of one tour ship discovered...