The Mainstream rowers (blue dashed line below) made it almost one tenth as far as Amundsen (brown line below) through the Northwest Passage.
Of course Amundsen also devoted a huge amount of time to scientific research, exploration and map making.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Amundsen, He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06).
There were numerous other people who did it before him.
You may be a bit to gracious on the blue line.
They haven’t made it to Cambridge Bay, yet-:)
But suddenly the GPS Track shows they are making very steady progress at a constant speed directly towards Cambridge Bay. Looks like they are getting a tow ?
Comparing these paid-publicity hounds to Amundsen is a bit unfair; Amundsen was a bad-ass man.
http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=698235630628
What ever happened to Pond Inlet?
http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/about/route/
There has been so much sea rise from melting ice that Pond Inlet is now under water. ;^)
The Lamestream team was “pulling together for climate change”.
A return to the norm wasn’t the “climate change” they’d believed in.
Must really suck to be taken in by all those fictitious climate models and their “tweaked” data sets.
Don’t forget that the article in the Irish Times has the text “We needed Mother Nature to help. She hasn’t” – oops – Mother nature and not anthropogenic climate change?
They found out that mother nature is stronger than man. Have they learned their lesson?
That’s what 100 years of “progressive thinking” will do for you.
Amundsen did it without GPS, ice charts, weather reports, ….
Here’s a pic of the boat Amundsen used, the Gjoa: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Gj%C3%B8a_i_1903.jpg
The lads are waxing philosophical and dressing up their despair as one of Stephen Covey’s seven virtues but Mainstream Renewable Power CEO Eddie O’Connor may not go for their dodge:
“You took my money so keep rowing, you fokking monkeys!”
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O’Connor is not much into nuanced philosophical discussions. Listen here:
http://vimeo.com/64034053
Money quote:
Q: “What do you say to climate change skeptics?”
O’Connor: “There is no such thing as a climate change skeptic.”
Poor lads! They set sail to bring attention to Climate Change, but before the BA$TARD$ achieved their goal, the Libtards abandoned Climate Change and went to Carbon Pollution, stranding the boys knee deep in slushy, rotten ice, dragging their boat along an excruciatingly boring coast. Two months of their lives they’ll never get back.
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Cambridge+Bay+CAXX1205:1:CA
What I learned from this silly failed PR stunt is that fossil fueled transportation gets you through dangerous Northern latitudes much faster and much safer than non fossil fueled transportation. I also learned how human activists have a propensity to participate in dumb meaningless stunts for attention and choose to ignore that the Arctic was ice free in summers during the Early Holocene in order to frighten other ignorant activist humans. 🙂
I miss having Reggie to kick around. Good trolls are getting harder and harder to find these days.
Reggie was a 5 of 10 on the scale of good, intelligent trolls. And he was likely the best you’ll find in the alarmista camp. Really good trolls are to smart to fall for the AGW clap-trap.
Sad to say, you’re doomed to kicking 2nd rate trolls around, when said trolls are defending global warming. Not as much fun as tangling with a truly intelligent troll at the top of his/her game.
I didn’t see Reggie as a troll. He wasn’t having fun tweaking us. He believed what he was saying; he was trying to convert us.
He believed he had a blowtorch that would meltdown the Arctic?
Trolls used to have more ammo.
The good ones do 😉
Glo-bull warming believers are abysmally short of ammunition. And brains. (Does that make them “zombie trolls”?)
The temperature has dropped off a bit over the last few days so a real bed, a hot shower and a warm meal sound very appealing right about now….
I expect that if the courageous lads make it to Cambridge Bay they will assemble the natives and demand solar power cooked organic meals and showers as well as organic straw beds.
You don’t compromise on the principles if our survival is at stake and there is no better place than the Arctic to take a stand. CEO Eddie O’Connor knows why he spent his company’s “very precious cash” on it.
http://vimeo.com/m/64034053
“It allows us to demonstrate that there is an answer to global warming.” – Eddie O’Connor
How does 4 jocks rowing in the Arctic demonstrate that there is an answer to global warming?
“There is no better place than the Arctic to take a stand.” Hard to get an audience in the Arctic. Rowing a boat where no one can see you is “taking a stand?”
“Rowing a boat where no one can see you is “taking a stand?”
It must be. I guess Eddie O’Connor’s Irish charm was lost on you. Did he not say that he “branded the company with the courage of these young lads” or something like that? I’m not kidding you.
I watched a minute or two. it was just a standard marketing speech, signifying nothing.