Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

(It was also timed with the 100 year anniversary of the Shackleton expedition. They were probably trying to show how 'warm' it is at the south pole now. LOL. Both expeditions occurred in the summer and it ain't any warmer.) The Chinese rescue ship is now stuck too. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/10548690/Antarctic-rescue-ship-now-stuck-in-ice.html

A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks’ reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change.

The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.

In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming.

Chris Turney, the expedition’s leader, is a professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales. According to Turney’s personal website, the purpose of the expedition is to “discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”

Twenty-two crew members stayed with the ship for the time being, as the scientists and researchers were rescued. According to CNN, the ship has enough supplies for “a very long time.”

Three rescue attempts had been thwarted by growing levels of sea ice and weather conditions.

"Outside, blizzard conditions packing an abnormal amount of ice in to the area for this time of the year, summer in the Antarctic," ABC News Correspondent Gio Benitez reported on “Good Morning America” Dec. 31.

On Jan. 2, all 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby Australian icebreaker ship which had tried, and failed, to plow through the ice and free the Akademic Shokalskiy, on Dec. 30. “Good Morning America” said on Dec. 30, that “the ice could be as thick as 13 feet.”

According to Fox News, Turney admitted “we’re stuck in our own experiment.” They reported on Dec. 30, that a statement from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said, “Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up.”

There was only one news story out of 41 that mentioned climate change. That was CBS “This Morning” Dec. 30. “Despite being frozen at a standstill, the team’s research on climate change and Antarctic wildlife is moving forward,” CBS News Correspondent Don Dahler said. That night, all three evening news programs still failed to make any mention of the group’s climate change research.

The MRC’s Business and Media Institute was unable to view a copy of CBS “Sunday Morning” for Dec. 29, so that broadcast had to be excluded from the tally.

Before their ship got stuck in ice, the researchers were following the trail of the explorer Douglas Mawson, who was stranded in Antarctica for more than a year, beginning in December 1912, according to the website about the expedition.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2014/01/02/frozen-out-98-stories-ignore-ice-bound-ship-was-global-warming-missi#ixzz2pOihhet7

[lostinblue 1,989]

This is a lot of "carbon" being sent into the atmosphere . Who pays this bill for all these ships polluting the pristine

wilderness.?

[Pooky 3,857]

Even more irony. The Chinese icebreaker, the Xue Long, is itself now stuck in the Antarctic ice.

[Peikko 1,575]

It's not relevant. Being stuck in ice does not disprove global warming - that's just ignorance at work - again.

[Pooky 3,857]

It's not relevant. Being stuck in ice does not disprove global warming - that's just ignorance at work - again.

No, but it might give people a bit of a chuckle ... if they have a sense of humour.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Poetic just ice! :lol:

[Peikko 1,575]

No, but it might give people a bit of a chuckle ... if they have a sense of humour.

Sure, except that the people who post this type of thing are not looking at it in that light but as proof that global warming is a hoax, not that you didn't already know that of course

[Operator 1,927]

This gave me a good chuckle this morning.

Erick Erickson ✔ @EWErickson

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"The difference between people who believe in the 2nd coming of Jesus and those who believe in global warming is that Jesus will return."

[Pooky 3,857]

Sure, except that the people who post this type of thing are not looking at it in that light but as proof that global warming is a hoax, not that you didn't already know that of course

As I said ... IF they have a sense of humour. Edited January 4, 2014 by Pooky

[lostinblue 1,989]

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That doesn't make sense.

[Danno 1,228]

There really is a larger lesson, or warning in all this.

And that is: So many people were brought into such a fevered belief in the impending doom.

People who had no background to know if it were true or not.

People who then went out and lambasted any critic or doubter. (VJ was ground zero)

This ferver went on to bring in more disciples, which added to the certainty that it must be true and the notion that, it is so important, we don't have time to allow room for doubters.

We see this same thing in other areas too: People building unquestioning loyalty to everything from environmantal causes, to social justice and even redesigning what a marriage and family means, without any hindsight or forethought. Clever internet images are all it takes.

All of these movements are orchastrated very skillfully by a few people, they use slogans and images to build a mass support.

Their constant theme of "This issue is above debate" is carried out by entangling their principles with yours.... which then jams your ability to resist.

We are supposed to be an "enlightened society" but instead we have become followers of political, social and finacial witch-doctors.

None the less, these are fantastic times to be alive if human and social evolution fascinated you, as it does me.

[Pooky 3,857]

The real irony of it is that the people didn't need rescuing, as the only real and present danger they were in was of over-exposure to Russian cooking.

[Danno 1,228]

The real irony of it is that the people didn't need rescuing, as the only real and present danger they were in was of over-exposure to Russian cooking.

Yeah that Russian cooking, trust me bro, that gets old quick.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

We are about to have two solid days of record breaking lows here in GA

It has not been this cold since the hysterical left predicted an coming ice age about 30 or so years ago

Edited January 5, 2014 by The conciliator