Remember this, just a short while back?
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Stuck in Antarctic ice
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January 7 / Ray Stevens
A Russian research ship was sent to Antarctica to examine all of the melting ice caused by Global Warming but instead got stuck in massive amounts of unexpected ice for days. 98% of all news outlets reporting on this failed to mention the ship was there to prove Global Warming.....What a joke!
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FOXNews.com
December 30, 2013
The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is "stuck in our own experiment."
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Glenn Beck
Monday, Jan 6, 2014
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Cover up? Global warming researchers get stuck in Antarctic ice, 98% of media coverage fails to mention their mission
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The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.
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In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming.
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The blatant omission is egregious, but when you consider the fact that this particular incident is a black eye for the global warming movement, it’s really not all that surprising.
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YAHOO News
Jan. 2, 2014
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All passengers confirmed rescued from icebound Antarctic ship
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Sydney (AFP) - Australian authorities expressed relief Friday after 52 passengers were safely rescued by helicopter from a Russian ship stranded in Antarctic ice, saying the dramatic mission had been difficult and complex.
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Officials tasked with freeing the scientific expedition on the Akademik Shokalskiy, which has been stuck since December 24, succeeded in flying them out Thursday in an on-off rescue operation.
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CNN Travel
Russian ship stuck in ice near Antarctica
By Tom Cohen
, CNN
updated 10:08 AM EST, Thu December 26, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Polar expedition ship with 74 aboard sends a Christmas distress signal
Three icebreakers are heading for the trapped vessel
The ship is stuck near Antarctica, 1,500 nautical miles south of Tasmania
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is coordinating the rescue
(CNN)
-- Passengers on a Russian polar expedition ship off Antarctica are getting a whiter Christmas than they probably wanted.
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The MV Akademik Shokalskiy, with 74 people aboard, got trapped in ice and is waiting for other ships with ice-breaking capabilities to reach it, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Wednesday.
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A British rescue coordination center received a satellite distress signal on Christmas morning from the Russian-flagged ship and contacted the Australian authority, which handles the Southern Ocean region where the vessel was stuck, an AMSA statement said.
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It pinpointed the trapped ship's location as 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont D'Urville, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Tasmania.
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Three icebreakers were headed to help the Russian vessel, the AMSA statement said, adding that none were expected to reach it before Friday.
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Expeditions Online, a polar booking agent for the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, said on its website that the ship got stuck "part way through her Australasian Antarctic Expedition towards Mawson's Hut at Cape Denison."
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"According to reports, nobody is in present danger and three nearby icebreakers are being sent to assist," the Expeditions Online website said.
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It described the ship as "a fully ice-strengthened expedition vessel" for working in polar regions.
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"This class of vessel is world-renowned for polar exploration, because of its strength, maneuverability and small passenger numbers," the company's website said.
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CNN's Kevin Wang contributed to this report.
Comments
That is a great and very much to the point cartoon.