Re-Writing Mission History? » Climate Resistance

Re-Writing Mission History? » Climate Resistance

Posted by Ben Pile on January 7, 2014

Stephan Lewnadowsky has an article at The Conversation, saying that sceptics are wrong, in their pointing and mocking of the failed Spirit of Mawson expedition.

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by now you might have seen dramatic images of passengers on stranded icebreaker Akademik Shokalskiy being rescued by helicopter last Friday after becoming lodged in Antarctica sea ice on Christmas Eve.

Lewandowsky is, of course, the defender of the environmental narrative. Key to his argument that the sceptics are wrong is a page on the expedition’s website, which seems to claim that the mission anticipated the ‘fast ice’ which came to surround them:

If one goes to the expedition’s website, their first three scientific goals (there are nine altogether) are as follows:

• gain new insights into the circulation of the Southern Ocean and its impact on the global carbon cycle
• explore changes in ocean circulation caused by the growth of extensive fast ice and its impact on life in Commonwealth Bay
• use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change by using trees, peats and lakes to explore the past

Says Lewandowsky:

In other words, the expedition is experiencing the very conditions it set out to study — namely the various kinds of sea ice that scientists know are increasing around Antarctica, while the icecaps on Antarctica are known to melt.

However, there is no mention of ‘fast ice’ on the site’s ‘expeidtion aims’ page in July last year, according the Archive.org wayback machine.
Now the expedition’s aims are outlined under a page called ‘Science Case‘, which indeed contains the reference to ‘fast ice’. But according to the Wayback machine, this didn’t appear until November, but the page in question wasn’t captured until January 2.

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Notes

1. "fast ice" is being used by climate alarmists in an inappropriate way to somehow imply the fiasco was unavoidable because ice "formed fast". Whilst this moronic use of language is appropriate for the mouthbreathers of the lapdog media, it is pretty much the exact opposite of what fast ice actually is.

Fast ice is ice that is held fast. It is archaic nautical language meaning ice that has held fast or been fastened to the shoreline, the sea floor or a semi permanent glacier. Fast ice thus means ice that does not move and cannot move since it is stuck in place.


2. Turney was made a professor of geography. At some point he morphed into a professor of climate change, a nonexistent science. Like Flimflam Flannery and so many others, any qualifications he holds are tangential and irrelevant to the area of supposed expertise to which a professorship would logically apply.

3. No work was done that could possibly provide scientific data of any significance during the Ship of Fools Affair. In fact no work was done at all in most cases. It was a farrago of lies building up to a climate change propaganda documentary to be released by the BBC and pimped by the Guardian.

The Blackboard » Trapped in Ice: CC story of 2013.

The Blackboard » Trapped in Ice: CC story of 2013.

My favorite bit is when he says his nickname will probably become “The Penguin”.
I welcome anyone who provides links to useful stories giving us details on:

1. How this was funded. Was it 100% pre-funded, or are there going to be any remaining liabilities?
2. Whether there might be any legal liabilities on the part of the organizers, particularly with regard to the eco-tourists. Hey. I’m American. I can’t help but think if this was an American expedition at least some of the eco-tourists would be trying to figure out if they could sue the organizers. Although, admittedly, each will have plenty of interesting stories to tell during upcoming cocktail parties and fundraisers or such like.
3. Who paid for the rescue? Did the various ice breakers just head out for free? Or is someone going to pay the Russian, Chinese & etc. for their efforts? (Looks like the SnowDragon itself may end up needing rescue?!. The article I linked tells us
   

   The cost of the rescue would be carried by the owners of the ships and their insurers, in accordance with international conventions on sea rescues, Young said.

   So, does this mean whoever owns the ship Turney rented? )
4. How this trip affected real research missions. Somewhere I read that some other Antarctic ice researchers were deprived of access to their equipment which remained on board the Aurora Australis when it was sent out on the higher priority live saving mission.

I’m sure these links are all over the place, but I haven’t had time to follow the story as much as I might have. So, share!

JUST ADD MORE RED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

JUST ADD MORE RED | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

“Funnily enough,” writes doom clown artist and cover satirist Brett, “it didn’t take much work at all to make her look like Ronald McDonald ...”

 

Alien abductions 1909

The gentry are the most noble tribe of all; and they are a big race who came from the planets--according to my idea; they usually appear white.

The Daoine Maithe (though there is some doubt, the same or almost the same as the gentry) were next to Heaven at the Fall, but did not fall; they are a people expecting salvation.'

The Smell Of Lime: Background Briefing: The Interpretation of the Fairy-Faith

THE INTERPRETATION OF THE FAIRY-FAITH

By the Celtic Fairy-Faith we mean that specialized form of belief in a spiritual realm inhabited by spiritual beings which has existed from prehistoric times until now in Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, or other parts of the ancient empire of the Celts.

In studying this belief, we are concerned directly with living Celtic folk-traditions, and with past Celtic folk-traditions as recorded in literature. And if fairies actually exist as invisible beings or intelligences, and our investigations lead us to the tentative hypothesis that they do, they are natural and not supernatural, for nothing which exists can be supernatural; and, therefore, it is our duty to examine the Celtic Fairy Races just as we examine any fact in the visible realm wherein we now live, whether it be a fact of chemistry, of physics, or of biology. However, as we proceed to make such an examination, we shall have to remember constantly that there is a new set of ideas to work with, entirely different from what we find in natural sciences, and often no adequate vocabulary based on common human experiences.

An American who has travelled in Asia and an Englishman who has travelled in Australia may meet in Paris and exchange travelling experiences with mutual understanding, because both. of them have experienced travel; and they will have an adequate vocabulary to describe each experience, because most men have also experienced travel. But a saint who has known the spiritual condition called ecstasy cannot explain ecstasy to a man who has never known it, and if he should try to do so would discover at once that no modern language is suitable for the purpose.

His experience is rare and not universal, and men have developed no complete vocabulary to describe experiences not common to the majority of mankind, and this is especially true of psychical experiences. It is the same in dealing with fairies, as these are hypothetically conceived, for only a few men and women can assert that they have seen fairies, and hence there is no adequate vocabulary to describe fairies. Among the Ancients, who dealt so largely with psychical sciences, there seems to have been a common language which could be used to explain the invisible world and its inhabitants; but we of this age have not yet developed such a language.

Consequently, men who deny human immortality, as well as men with religious faith who have not through personal psychical experiences transformed that faith into a fact, nowadays when they happen to read what Plato, Iamblichus, or any of the Neo-Platonists have written, or even what moderns have written in attempting to explain psychic facts, call it all mysticism.

And to the great majority of Europeans and Americans, mysticism is a most convenient noun, applicable to anything which may seem reasonable yet wholly untranslatable in terms of their own individual experience; and mysticism usually means something quite the reverse of scientific simply because we have by usage unwisely limited the meaning of the word science to a knowledge of things material and visible, whereas it really means a knowing or a knowledge of everything which exists. We have tried to deal with the rare psychical experiences of Irish, Scotch, Manx, Welsh, or Breton seers, and psychics generally, in the dearest language possible; but if now and then we are charged with being mystical, this is our defence.

 The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz

MIBs caught on video

Vladimir Bukovsky I Have Lived In Your Future EUSSR

Vladimir Bukovsky I Have Lived In Your Future EUSSR

Vladimir Bukovsky shares his thoughts on the similarity between the Soviet Union, of yesteryear, and the European Union. This video is from 2006 but is well worth another airing, especially as George Osborne is about to make another £10 billion donation to European Union eurozone bailout fund … under the guise of ‘a loan’ to the IMF.

It’s a donation FFS! Not a loan. Who does he think he’s kidding! Anyway, the words of Vladimir Bukovsky ring as true today as they did then. ‘I have lived in your future and it didn’t work’.

Quite.

And people wonder why so many of us call the European Union … the EUSSR.

Nightmare Fuel: Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Eater of Worlds, and of Children)