Chinese Icebreaker Is Stuck In Ice After Antarctic Research Vessel Rescue

New submitter Cochonou writes "In an unforeseen turn of events, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long is now stuck in heavy Antarctic pack ice, just a day after its helicopter was used for the rescue of the passengers onboard the ice-trapped MV Akademik Shokalskiy. The Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis, which is now carrying the passengers of the Shokalskiy, has been placed on standby to assist. The Chinese vessel is waiting for favorable tidal conditions on Saturday to make another attempt at freeing itself."

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Re:Just remember now...

[ElectricTurtle]

Remember kids, when it supports ecofascism, it's climate, when it supports skepticism, it's weather. When a huge storm does a ton of damage, don't go thinking that's just weather, it's climate change, boogah boogah! But when temperature delta flatlines for years, don't go thinking that's climate, it's just weather. Yay! (Political) "science"!

(I'm so glad I have more karma than Ghandi. Bring on the downmods fascists!)

Re:Just remember now... it's just weather?

[zerosomething]

Apparently these "climate scientists", their families and friends on this tour of Mawson’s camp site can't tell the difference between weather and climate. It appears they so believed in declining Antarctic ice they forgot to look at the weather and recent trends. There's an unprecedented amount of ice down there and these fools ignored that and went ahead and tried to complete their tour of a historic site. Exactly who are the idiots here?