Professor Turkey – Having Trouble With Reality
By Paul Homewood
Scientists and passengers from the Akademik Shokalskiy stomp flat an area of ice next to their ship in readiness for a helicopter evacuation after the Aurora Australis icebreaker failed to break through
Expedition leader, Chris Turney, seems a bit put out by “climate sceptics who have taken to social media sites in recent days to attack the scientific consensus on climate change”. (Yes, the same consensus that predicted less Antarctic ice).
Apparently they have been “pointing out the apparent incongruity of there being so much sea ice around the Shokalskiy in the middle of the Antarctic summer.”
He assures us that their problem is just a little local difficulty:
“There’s a misconception here – we are not trapped in new ice that’s been created because its cold,” said Turney. “This is very old, thick ice that’s been re-mobilised. It was attached to another part of the continent and has broken out and, with the south-easterly winds we’ve had, has pushed it up against the coast … and pinned us in.”
Well’ at least it’s honest of him to admit that the “very old, thick ice” is still there and has not melted away over the years. But, he still seems to have no appreciation, or is afraid to admit it, that all around Antarctica, sea ice has been steadily building up since satellite records began in 1979, and that ice extent has been at record levels for most of this year.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png
Perhaps the wind has been blowing in the wrong direction for the last 30 years.
Or perhaps, Professor Turkey has not done his homework properly.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
But BUT really Capt the models tell us this is thin rotten ice now full speed ahead or we will stop payment on the check from the taxpayers . ;>)
They have given us the best end to 2013 there could be, other than the complete collapse of the AGW scam of course.
A Happy & Prosperous New Year to you Paul.
Professor Turkey doesn’t like what he hears on skeptical blogs? My my.
He richly deserves everything he is getting. We really must remember to thank him and his ship-of-fools for providing this end-of-year entertainment.
He should appreciate that at least we are paying attention to him and his little band of media-whores. Attention? Isn’t that what they are there for?
Truth about Antarctic sea ice extant seems to have escaped the dear Professor. Perhaps a resolution to read skeptic climate blogs a bit closer is in order for Professor Turkey – a sort of self-improvement resolution.
Paul – love the blog! Happy New Year! Keep up the great work!
Captain Turkey is not the only one having problems dealing with reality.
U.K. Guardian reporter Laurence Topham is tired and misses his Mommy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2zaXJ2ntJo&feature=youtu.be
I mean really! No milk shakes?
Hard Bed and his back hurts?
He’s not having fun anymore and his leg hurts?
It pretty much speaks for it’s self, but man oh man what a self absorbed whinny wuss this guy is. He is warm. He is fed. He is in a fascinating place on an adventure. He even has a little privacy it appears and obviously the ability to communicate long distances. He signed up to propagandize for a global warming expedition to the arctic! But Mommy I wanna go home now, it’s not fun anymore! Let us hope he never procreates if he can because quite obviously his “Y” Chromosome is little y and not a capital Y.
They’re running low on booze, it’s no fun anymore, people are making fun of them….all the makings of a boondoggle gone bad.
Well, I do wish them the best – they are still in harm’s way – hope no one get chapped lips or wind burn or anything else.
This was a mission that need not have been taken. They all should have stayed home. They could write and blog about disappearing sea-ice; and evil energy companies, and Mankind encroaching on a fragile environment.
And now they demonstrate; polar environments are anything but fragile; while trapped in fast-growing sea-ice! Boneheads.
If they make it out alive, they should count themselves among the fortunate.
The Chinese have a helicopter and I’m wondering why the hold up in evacuating them? I know weather was a factor earlier. Is it still the problem? Or is there something else going on we haven’t heard about yet? Nobody had indicated that anyone is in any real danger yet. But obviously there is a question of what will be the fate of the ship.
Range and visibility appear to be part of it, plus the Chinese can’t take them anywhere at the moment. Escaping from your personal Unintended Consequences can be so complicated!
I blame George Bush & evil wizards from space. But mostly George Bush (because those evil wizards from space are mean & they don’t like people who talk smack).
The Chinese have an evil sense of humour, making them wait. They are not globull warming true believers…
Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
They traveled to Antarctica
Aboard a Russian ship
The chief was a global warming man
The skipper wasn’t so sure
But activists set sail that day
For a propaganda tour… a propaganda tour
The water started getting cold
The frozen ship was stuck
Their theories called for melting ice
But they were out of luck… yes, they were out of luck…
The ship ran aground on this block of unexpected ice
With embarrassment….
And skeptics too…
But we spend millions on a hoax
While movie stars
Professors and politicians
Give us contempt and bile
So this is the tale of climate change
It’s here for a long, long time
No matter how much their theories fail
Truth has an uphill climb
The government and Hollywood too
Will do their very best
To make us all uncomfortable
In our sustainable nest
No phone, no lights, no motor cars
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
As primitive as can be
The elites won’t join us though, my friends
They’re sure to live in style
While we give up our light bulbs
Recant your climate change denial!