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US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica
PolygamousRanchKid writes "A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker left Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent's eastern edge, officials said. The 399-foot cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia and China to assist the Russian and Chinese ships because 'there is sufficient concern that the vessels may not be able to free themselves from the ice,' the Coast Guard said in a statement. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Centre, which oversaw the rescue, said the Polar Star, the Coast Guard's only active heavy polar icebreaker, would take about seven days to reach Commonwealth Bay, depending on weather. Under international conventions observed by most countries, ships' crews are obliged to take part in such rescues and the owners carry the costs."
This bit here is pretty popular on the internet these days. Taking a single incident of global warming researchers stuck in ice and using the (rather remarkable) irony of that to debunk global warming as a whole.
So long as you repeatedly and disingenuously take each instance as a single instance, you make sense. The problem is that there are quite a bit of instances, most poignant of which is that southern ice has been increasing for decades, even while the alarmists were pointing at single instances of the southern ice shelf breaking off as evidence of global warming.
....meanwhile the complete lack of any recent compelling evidence of atmospheric warming is explained away by claiming that the oceans are absorbing all of it in ways and with an efficiency that we do not understand.
If it is not important that Antarctic ice melt is this year the lowest ever recorded, then what are we to make of "warmest year", "most hurricanes" and other assorted alarmisms?
The thing about science is that its supposed to be falsifiable. Why is it then that real data is completely ignored in favor of proxy data that doesnt even correlate with the real data?
"His name was James Damore."
Ha ha ha! land-only. The earth is 66% ocean bro. You were just caught cherry picking while blaming someone else for cherry picking.
http://davidpratt.info/climate/warm7.jpg
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter16/isotope.html
Global warming is a complete scam.
I followed the shitty blogs linking to shitty blogs all the way down to watch Al Gore's "predictions". It's funny how saying things like that he was told some models show a 75% chance that all polar icecaps will be melted by x date gets translated to "Al gore's expert opinion". I notice the other trend there is to use words like "scientist" when talking about Al Gore, even though he is clearly no such thing, to set up a false relationship between him and actual people doing science, so that whenever he does say something stupid, a bunch of people like you can dance around and pretend that he is representational of the climate science community.
So yes, you "make fun" of people like us by trying to find examples of people who happen to agree with us for whatever reason on this particular issue, and then pouring on ad hominem attacks against them. And not only that, you have to make shit up because otherwise the ad hominem attacks aren't even compelling enough. I suspect you sound a lot smarter in your head than you do to the rest of us. Maybe you should spend a little more time getting your facts in places other than blogspot.