tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post7402512181913813228..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Eli Is PuzzledEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-60853098565322089092014-01-07T21:37:15.496-05:002014-01-07T21:37:15.496-05:00Albatross's comment at 6/1/14 12:33 PM was spo...Albatross's comment at 6/1/14 12:33 PM was spot on.<br /><br />The wind has changed and both the Russian and the Chinese ships freed themselves with no trouble.<br /><br />Now... given that the sea ice is suddenly breaking up and allowing trapped ships to steam away, I presume that WATTS, Tol, and all their Denialati friends will forgo their hysteria about the impending ice age and instead focus on the fact that Antarctic sea ice is disintegrating, which must surely be a sign of global warming - after all, it couldn't be an indication of <i>weather</i>, could it?!<br /><br /><br />Bernard J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-64464367722393711082014-01-07T11:21:14.103-05:002014-01-07T11:21:14.103-05:00Anon,
Ironically, neither the Brits (BAS) nor the...Anon,<br /><br />Ironically, neither the Brits (BAS) nor the South Africans (SANAP) use ice breakers to resupply their bases in Antarctica. The Germans, Japanese, Aussies and Americans do use ice breakers of various strengths. <br /><br />Mr. Headland may be correct that the expedition was done as cheaply as possible (you can't win, Troll and the deniers don't want people spending tonnes of money but then use Mr. Headland's statement to persecute them), but faulting them for using an ice strengthened vessel is a bit rich coming from a Brit. Albatrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14444036939651524737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-56343710944830025332014-01-07T04:02:26.316-05:002014-01-07T04:02:26.316-05:00British tabloid The Daily Fail and consequently al...British tabloid The Daily Fail and consequently all denier sites are citing Scott Polar Institute's Robert Headland who has said that the Mawson expedition was 'on the cheap' & "... instead of using an icebreaker, they used an ice-strengthened ship, which is totally unsuitable.”<br /><br />That is really ironic coming from Mr Headland who, after having been the Scott Polar Institute's curator and archivist for 22 years, now works at Quark Expeditions which specializes in Antarctic cruises and whose <b>icebreaker the Kapitan Khlebnikov got stuck in Antarctic ice</b> in November 2009.<br /><br />http://www.quarkexpeditions.com/en/why-quark/our-people/expedition-team/robert-headland<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitan_Khlebnikov_%28icebreaker%29#Stuck_in_the_ice<br />http://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/Quark-Expeditions-ship-gets-stuck-in-ice/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-29223474744056530952014-01-06T22:42:52.806-05:002014-01-06T22:42:52.806-05:00It would be entirely consistent for Eunice to not ...It would be entirely consistent for Eunice to not know what it is talking about.4964935 13Rattus Norvegicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449457204330125792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-15877964773359477212014-01-06T21:55:59.294-05:002014-01-06T21:55:59.294-05:00The true Antarctic explorers may be turning in the...The true Antarctic explorers may be turning in their graves ( and we'll just have to bury them again ).<br /><br />It would be entirely consistent if more CO2 led to colder Antarctic winters ( because the winter Antarctic surface is colder than the Antarctic stratosphere, meaning increased CO2 opacity leads to more energy, not less, emerging to space ).<br /><br />Maybe that's what our [sic] 'splorers' have revealed.<br /><br />Eunice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-91933241129846357172014-01-06T21:35:47.551-05:002014-01-06T21:35:47.551-05:00And here Eli thought that he was laughing at the c...And here Eli thought that he was laughing at the comedy? YMMVEliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-10761830811804782782014-01-06T21:35:21.368-05:002014-01-06T21:35:21.368-05:00w/o actually reading the Karpoff paper (I wasn'...w/o actually reading the Karpoff paper (I wasn't able to because for some reason my Uni does not have a sub to the site) I can think of a lot of factors which might lead to Karpoff's findings and which invalidate them. The main factor being the medical understanding of scurvy, and the second factor being the amount of seal meat eaten. <br /><br />For example, most of the polar parties in Antarctic expeditions suffered from scurvy (especially true for the British who believed in man hauling) after they ran out of animals to slaughter and eat, while the parties which remained near shore had adequate supplies of vitamin C provided by seal meat. I would suggest that scurvy is a poor indicator to use.Rattus Norvegicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449457204330125792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-21193979699806396282014-01-06T21:26:50.380-05:002014-01-06T21:26:50.380-05:00Eli should take some of his own medicine, grow a p...Eli should take some of his own medicine, grow a pair and laugh at the comedy. Although the strong and multiple whines are amusing.<br /><br />1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-23842221354884743082014-01-06T21:07:38.708-05:002014-01-06T21:07:38.708-05:00If you are a climate crank continually being made ...If you are a climate crank continually being made to look like an idiot by science, you are going to grab any opportunity to give a climate scientist a good kicking. The frothing at the mouth from some of them was not a good look however.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-10884814043368792962014-01-06T15:33:20.890-05:002014-01-06T15:33:20.890-05:00What Rachel said. This is another silly storm in ...What Rachel said. This is another silly storm in a tea cup by the deniers.<br /><br />IMHO, the organizers were way too impatient, the Mawson expedition could have quite easily (and safely) stayed in the pack for a couple more weeks doing science. It is not so much the ice they are fighting but what the winds are doing with that ice.<br /><br />But the deniers get to rant about government and the evils of climate science and how the Antarctic ice (yes, it is only sea ice that is increasing, but they like to conflate land ice and sea ice for obvious reasons) is increasing...just more noise from the peanut gallery. Yawn.Albatrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14444036939651524737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-20657788226370545822014-01-06T15:28:21.146-05:002014-01-06T15:28:21.146-05:00Eli knows that NASA flies bricks, but cows?Eli knows that NASA flies bricks, but cows?EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-15497264506659442912014-01-06T13:35:39.341-05:002014-01-06T13:35:39.341-05:00The ruminant rumored to have made the remark was ...The ruminant rumored to have made the remark was sitting in a Mercury capsule, as Douglas was the only bidder for the Saturn V third stage.<br /><br /><br />Walking around the launch pad of the beast the evening after, we noticed the charred grond was littered with bits and pieces of it- screws, nuts, bits of wiring and such , and one of the party made so bold as to ask our NASA handler whhy this was so?<br /><br />He blandly assured us the electronic dandruff but illustrated the wisdom of triple redundency in designing systems with over a million parts. THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-75739758769971293072014-01-06T13:32:27.714-05:002014-01-06T13:32:27.714-05:00I like Eli's POV. It does seem very strange th...I like Eli's POV. It does seem very strange that people of a more libertarian bent are not appreciative of the raising of private funds to help foot the bill. I'm sure if the ship hadn't been associated with climate science that things would be different.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-46368716631821871532014-01-06T12:28:11.711-05:002014-01-06T12:28:11.711-05:00Intellectual consistency is not a strong point of ...Intellectual consistency is not a strong point of the fanatic.CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-3336278691454651492014-01-06T12:05:49.250-05:002014-01-06T12:05:49.250-05:00Eli, dies this mean I kin have a red button too ?
...Eli, dies this mean I kin have a red button too ?<br /><br />I's still five digits in the red <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/world/in-guatemala-a-rhode-island-size-jade-lode.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" rel="nofollow">from the last time we went 'splorin.</a><br /><br />Thanky.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.com