Sunday, 7 September 2008
The big chill
This story is irresistible:
Lewis Gordon Pugh will kayak from the Island of Spitsbergen (in northern Europe) across the Arctic Ocean, into the Arctic ice pack, and as close to the North Pole as possible. The journey, across some of the most dangerous seas in the world, is scheduled to depart on the 30th of August.
The expedition will highlight how thin the sea ice has become in recent years.
On his blog, Pugh explained the critical importance of the expedition with this open "message to world leaders":
Global warming is, I believe, a significantly greater threat to us, to our economies and to our way of life than any or all of recent issues that have headed national agendas: the credit crunch, global terrorism, the price of oil, healthcare, ageing populations etc. World leaders need to attack this threat head-on. This response will need to be as aggressive, and as global, as the world’s response to fascism and Nazism in the mid-twentieth century. And I think the best way to approach this problem is as though a war is being fought, a war whose outcome will determine the fate of all of us.
Our response so far, such as it is, has been predicated on a ‘best case’ scenario - but any war that has a chance of being won is planned on a ‘worst case’ and it is the ‘worst case’ that I believe can be witnessed here in the Arctic. From what I have seen over the past week it is not a question of ‘whether’ but simply ‘when’ the Arctic will be free of summer sea ice. Those leaders who ignore the warming signs and fail to act with the vision, tenacity and determination that I believe is necessary imperil not only future generations, but the current one as well.
Unfortunately - and it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this point - they had to turn back after only 60 miles. Yeah, they got stuck in ice.
(h/t: Peter Risdon)
Labels: Idiotarians, We're all doomed...
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Wasn't there something similar a few years ago when some people tried to walk to the North Pole to make a point about "global warming" but turned back with frostbite?
Yes, you've gotta chuckle.
Yes, you've gotta chuckle.
Even more entertainingly, it seems their support boat was a Norwegian seal-hunting vessel. Save the earth, club a seal.
this is what happens when you believe stupid fuckwits instead of looking for your self.I bet he took his bermuda shorts and some glacier mints for the polar bears.
Global warming is, I believe, a significantly greater threat to us, to our economies and to our way of life than any or all of recent issues that have headed national agendas: the credit crunch, global terrorism, the price of oil, healthcare, ageing populations etc.
Let me see:
1) Credit crunch: Makes global warming less likely.
2) Global terror: Has already changed our way of life. Not the terror, but rather the reaction to it but Stalinist bastards.
3) The price of oil: Global warming definitely not happening. Far too expensive.
4)Healthcare: Global warming happens, we all die, no healthcare problem.
5) Aging Population: See answer to number 4.
Logic not the best of talents in the great end of the world scare industry.
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Let me see:
1) Credit crunch: Makes global warming less likely.
2) Global terror: Has already changed our way of life. Not the terror, but rather the reaction to it but Stalinist bastards.
3) The price of oil: Global warming definitely not happening. Far too expensive.
4)Healthcare: Global warming happens, we all die, no healthcare problem.
5) Aging Population: See answer to number 4.
Logic not the best of talents in the great end of the world scare industry.
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