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Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship

Posted by timothy on from the good-on-'em dept.

The shipload of researchers and tourists stuck in the Antarctic ice are still stuck. A Chinese icebreaker, the Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, has gotten tantalizingly close but was hampered by "unusually thick ice." Now, an Australian vessel, the Aurora Australis, will attempt to rescue the 74 people aboard the MV Akademik Shokalskiy.

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  1. Re:I thought that... by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, of course: Because when the average temperature in December rises from -18 C to -16 C means that it's impossible for water to even consider freezing.

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  2. Vauge conclusions by sjbe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love how the NYT and BBC reports on this story completely neglect to mention that the stuck ship is full of climate scientists out to gather global warming evidence.

    Just like you are vaguely hinting that locally colder than usual weather somehow is evidence that the climate is not changing. Do you have any conception of the difference between climate and weather?

    1. Re:Vauge conclusions by Kernel+Kurtz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But scientists have been equating ice levels with climate for decades.....

    2. Re:Vauge conclusions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And Gore told us scientists had proof the Arctic would be ice free by 2013.

      Lets tally the results so far:
      AGW correct predictions - 0
      AGW incorrect prediction - 1340

      Well, I'm going to use the scientific method and not listen to people who are ALWAYS wrong when they predict doom and gloom unless I am taxed more.

  3. Re:I thought that... by Mashiki · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dunno. The flappy headed environmentalists have been telling us for years(closer to decades) that there will be no ice in the arctic or antarctic. And the met centre in the UK went as far as to say a few years ago that "snow would be a thing of the past, and would only be read about in books." If there was a great fraud being perpetrated that people are cluing in on, then it would be the doom and gloom hoax of our lifetime.

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  4. Re:Antarctica ... Ice by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also why use ice area/volume as a standard of the global temperature?

    ..perhaps because for years we have been told that shrinking ice area/volume was a standard indicator of global warming.

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  5. Re:Two standard deviations more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Meh...nothing refutes global warming. Even when there hasn't been any in the last 18 years

  6. Re:Vague News by dbIII · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if we are totally uninteresting and irrelevant there's quite a few people from there reading this site and adding stuff while your part of the world is asleep. That's why.