Tom Smitheringale wanted to prove the world was warming. Now he's another alarmist with frostbite.(via Wolf Howling)
The 40-year-old from Perth planned to be the first Australian to trek unassisted to the North Pole, but announced he'd raise some consciousness along the way.
As he wrote on his website: "Part of the reason Tom's One Man Epic is taking place now is because of the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps."
Indeed, he wanted to see the North Pole while it was still there: "Some scientists have even estimated that the polar ice cap will have entirely melted away by 2014!"
But Antarctica isn't melting away, and Arctic ice has slowly increased since its big low in 1997.
But no one seems to have told Tom, who soon found his extremities freezing.
Two weeks ago he nearly called off his trek after suffering excruciating pain in his fingers and thumbs, forcing him to call in emergency help.
And last week he had to be rescued by Canadian soldiers after falling through the ice sheet.
"(I) came very close to the grave," he said, on being flown out.
This is actually now the fourth year running that warming alarmists have had to be rescued from expeditions to prove the Arctic is warmer than it actually is. It's a metaphor.
Last year it was British eco-explorer Pen Hadow and his two-person team who had to be flown out mid-stunt, after battling brutal sub-zero weather conditions that gave the team's photographer frostbite.
The year before, eco-adventurer Lewis Gordon Pugh was similarly thwarted.
He'd planned to kayak 1200km to the North Pole to raise awareness of how global warming had allegedly melted the ice sheet so badly that scientists warned the North Pole that summer could be ice-free.
No such luck. Pugh had to pull out, still 1000km from the finish, when a great barrier of sea ice blocked his route.
The year before gave even more farcical entertainment.
"Explorers and educators" Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen said they were off on what reporters described as "a historic 75-day expedition to the North Pole and beyond to raise awareness of global warming's impact on the fragile Arctic".
It turned out that what was fragile was not the Arctic but the alarmists, who had to call off their big trip not long after it started, when Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold drained their batteries.
Explained a spokesman: "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming."
Like the globe, really.
Friday, April 30, 2010
QOTD
Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun (Australia):
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So, let me just understand this: These people are sooo chagrined when reality fails to conform itself to their cherished beliefs; yet despite that, they absolutely REFUSE to modify those beliefs to incorporate the reality that they, themselves, personally, have experienced. (And the elites of this group call themselves "The Reality-Based Community". !)
ANM:
Allow me to describe for you the concept I call The Liberal Reset Button®
There's a device built into their tiny widdle brains (such as they are) which acts on their memory processes as it processes the day's experiences into permanent storage.
It examines all the day's learning in light of Officially Accepted Liberal Positions®. If it finds ANYTHING which violates the OALP, it is instantly purged and removed from further affect on the brain (such as it is).
This explains how you can, with any liberal, start from one of their more Cherished OALPs, take them, step by step, through a reasoning process and show how that OALP is categorically guaranteed to result in exactly the opposite of that thing which the OALP is intended to promote, and have them agree with you utterly and completely every step of the way, even unto the conclusion that the OALP is blatantly, inherently wrong (They'll weasel it almost every time with "Hmmm. I'm going to have to think about this some more").
Then, despite this, when you see them again a day, or two days, or a week, later, they will still be arguing in total and complete support of the OALP you just wasted your time demonstrating to them was utterly and completely defective in every way, shape, or form.
The Midnight Reset Button has done its nefarious work.
Once you grasp that this is not a joke, that it's an actual, functioning mechanism inside libtard brains (such as they are), you will have a far greater understanding of how it is that liberals make no sense.
P.S., there's a reason why libtards function so well with doublespeak -- East Germany was the German Democratic Republic (despite being neither a Republic, nor being Democratic) -- "Reality" is, to them, the same as "Democratic" is to the old SovUnion. They liked to appropriate the word to take its obvious function away from any opposition speaker.
The same "reasoning" applies -- take away the word, and you gain the second social derivative of being able to criticize the opponent. Clearly, if you aren't "reality based", then what sort of silly thing are you...? It takes a skillful rhetorician to flip that around and use it to mirror said appropriator -- and most people aren't that skilled.
It is stories like this that cause me to despair of ever reasoning with some folks. If frostbite and near-death experiences don't get your attention, what will?
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