A rowboat expedition to the Arctic made possible by climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
They haven’t even started yet, how does she know the trip is possible?
The trip is a joke. Their route covers less than half of the Northwest Passage, and the route is blocked with 90+% concentration multi-year ice. They will probably end up dragging the canoe for most of the route.
h/t to Chewer
They should have sled runners installed on the bottom of the boat and a dog team to pull them over the ice.
But this “journey” is the perfect metaphor for the dying alarmist cause . . . .
It’s all media-driven, it takes place in complete ignorance of the plain facts on the ground, and it is far more likely to harm the participants than achieve anything positive.
Carry on! DIPSH*TS
It could be by July 4th, there’ll be a media blackout on this one:)
I’d love to see some real-time footage of their journey.
I would not at all be surprised if they are airlifted to their destination, claiming success.
By hook or by crook, disciples doing Gaia’s work.
These gentlemen are seasoned adventurers and have already earned their fame.
Kevin Vallely, along with teammates Ray Zahab and Richard Weber ,broke the world record for the fastest unsupported trek from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole.
Paul Gleeson and a rowing partner completed an 85 day, 2500 mile transatlantic rowing voyage in 2006
Peter Wolf and a partner canoed from the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia to Vancouver, British Columbia, a 171-day epic journey that involved a 400-kilometer portage across the Rocky Mountains.
So you are saying they are better prepared and fitter than any other humans that have tried this……………but any success will still be blamed on AGW ?
You lot are nothing but liars
“seasoned adventurers” should actually read “trustafarian a-holes”
Nothing more than a bunch of greenfleecing exhibitionists traveling in a luxury boat with gps positioning and panic beacons. Does the boat have skids and a towing eye as well?
These guys are an insult to Amundsen and other great fearless explorers.
There have been so many botched “expeditions made possible because of climate change” to various parts of the Arctic you can’t count them, and none of the tragedies and mishaps made a bit of difference to the next fool in line
“The trip is a joke. Their route covers less than half of the Northwest Passage”
When Roald Amundsen made the first successful crossing of the Northwest Passage in 1903-06, he finished near Herschel Island at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, a short distance from their starting point in Inuvik, NWT. Their final destination is Pond Inlet, Baffin Island.
Essentially what they are doing is retracing Amudsen’s journey in reverse. all in one year, as opposed to three.
That is complete horseshit. They are bypassing thousands of kilometres of ice with an aircraft. I’m pretty sure that Amundsen didn’t fly in.
What aircraft would that be, Steve?
Their voyage is the same as Amundsen’s, but in reverse order.
Things are looking up for the rowers, the blowtorch is going to take care of a lot of the ice on the early portion of their journey. Check out the temperatures around Banks Island.next week.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html
Idiot. You can’t possibly be as obtuse as you put on display.
Why don’t they bring a nuclear bomb and melt all the ice? Melting the ice with fossil fuel, and then blaming it on global warming.
What’s with all the anger and name calling?
Are you having a bad day?
Are you upset about today’s record temperature in Barrow?
You haven’t explained what aircraft they are using, my understanding is that they are driving from Vancouver to the NWT, then rowing the same route as Amundsen.
How is this only half the journey through the North West Passage?
You won yourself a special post!
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/more-humor-from-the-team/
What aircraft do you “think” it is Reggie-Pooh? Or, do you think they will drive, walk or run to the starting point of their silly, uninformed farce?
Did you notice that Tuk does NOT mention this farcical “voyage” on its web site? Do you know anything about Tuk, Reggie-Pooh?,
You really should at least TRY to take your head out of your rectum. Your fecal matter really is not very interesting, and it is really uninformed and STUPID.
What airplane are you talking about?
Are they following an icebreaker?
There is no aircraft!
They are driving from Vancouver to their starting point Inuvik NWT.
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT is downstream and is not the staring point.
Just like Amundsen, in his Hummer.
Are they following an icebreaker?
Steve, what part of they are driving from Vancouver to Inuvik didn’t you understand?
http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/
What part of Amundsen didn’t have a car and there weren’t any roads is it that you don’t understand?
Steve,you are being childish, they are rowing the North West Passage along the same route Amundsen took.
The only difference is they are not going to take three years.
Here is a bit of trivia for you, after completing the Northwest Passage portion of this trip and having anchored near Herschel Island, Amundsen skied 800 kilometres to the city of Eagle, Alaska, and sent a telegram announcing his success
The secret to digging holes is to know when to stop digging.
So you think UFOs dropped Amundsen off in the Beaufort Sea? How do you propose that he got there?
Apparently riding in an airplane is part of the ISO 9000 “Seasoned Adventurer” process.
Steve, WTF are you babbling about?
Amundsen got to the Beaufort Sea by sailing the North West Passage.Do you realize that he wintered there in 1906 because his ship was ice bound by the time he got back from sending the telegraph . The rowers are starting where Amundsen finished his trip through the NWP and going west to east.
You need help Steve, you’re spending too much time arguing on the internet
Amundsen sailed the entire Northwest Passage. These guys are trying to do less than half.
Steve, are you retarded, or are you just acting?
What does flying in have to do with anything?
The rowers are doing the full North West Passage by boat.
Do you really expect them to row the boat from Vancouver?
Last time I checked, Vancouver was not on the North West Passage
Are you jealous because they are real men who have done incredible feats of endurance and all you do is silly post crap on the internet?
ROFLMAO
The Northwest Passage is a shipping route between the Pacific and the Atlantic which avoids going through the Panama Canal.
These clowns are doing a short section of that route, which avoids most of the ice in the Northwest Passage.
They are real man and you’re a pussy
You’re pathetic, time for you to get help!
Bye
I don’t have any doubt that they are good in the water. The problem is that they are being used for propaganda.
What will it cost tax payers to rescue these people again?
A wonderful opportunity for the Darwin Effect to work its endless charm by cleaning more debris from the human gene pool. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving crew. Stupid is as stupid does.
Nothing will happen to them. They will just drag the boat along the shoreline.
Lovely Propaganda exercise. Token polar bear will be on TV with some ice and ocean in arctic summer. No video of airline journey or chopper journey or giant ice breaker journey. That’s not PC to the warmists agenda. Send us some happy snaps.
Human on a stick. Yum.
How long will it take to get frostbitten toes this time?
The Arctic is as normal as it should be:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmp_01.fnl.html
If these ecotards are as slow as they are dumb then the way a polar bear would describe them is “easy snack”.
The morally superior ones taste so much better.
The entire point of this Charade has already been realized. Libtards crave attention almost as much as they crave riches. So, there is a Gubmint funded “Sponsor” to pay for the adventure, and all the rest is self promotion. They drive a nice comfy Hummer to the starting point, drag the canoe a few hundred yards, camp, then call for the rescue squad. The objective of the entire scam is publicity.
I could make that trip even without “global warming.” All I would need is my American-made, 17′ Grumman aluminum canoe, a thirty-pack of Bud, a carton of Marlboros, and any overweight American female willing to drag it across the ice as part of her weight-loss regemin.
Cancellation of the trip by polar bear sounds quite fitting in an ironic way.
Why do these men hate starving children?