P Gosselin:
Le Monde here has an article which in large part re-iterates what NYT journalist Andrew Revkin wrote 3 days ago. The selfish, adolescent follies of the Turney expedition are seriously disrupting the supply of serious scientific operations in the Antarctic. A number of scientists worldwide have not found Turney’s charade amusing at all.
The piece is titled: “Scientists angered by cruise trapped in Antarctica“.
After describing how the botched expedition and the ensuing helicopter rescue, Le Monde writes how the relief operations are now “endangering several major research programs being conducted on different scientific bases of the sixth continent.” There’s only a 3-month window available for supply ships to make vital deliveries. Time is of the essence when it comes to logistics in Antarctica.
On the Turney expedition, Le Monde quotes Yves Frenot, the French Director of the Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor (IPEV):
It is a tourist pseudo-scientific expedition. It’s a little ‘cruise fun’.”
Glaciologist Jérôme Chappellaz of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l’Environnement, who is still at the Casey Antarctic base, said:
The expedition was presented as being scientific, but there are tourists on board who paid to go on a trip.”
Because of the distress call coming from the Turney’s chartered expedition vessel Akademik Shokalskiy, Le Monde writes: “Vital supplies comprising hundreds of tons of food, fuel and equipment could not be fully discharged from the Aurora Australis, which was requisitioned in emergency.”
The supply disruption is not the only thing that irked scientists on other Antarctic bases in need of vitally important supplies, but they later had to watch booze-cruise, spring break like going-ons onboard the ice-bound Akademik Shokalskiy. Le Monde quotes Mr. Chappellaz:
And the taxpayers of Australia are not happy about being forced to pick up the tab for the rescue. Apparently this entire thing was caused by the passengers dawdling at the Mawson Hut base. The captain of the ship knew the wind was going to change and that sea ice was going to block their route back out to open water. The passengers (which included Turney’s wife and two small children) were hours late getting everything back aboard the ship. It was stranded only 2 nautical miles from open water. Had they left only an hour earlier, they might have possibly made it out without incident.
Should have left them there. Global warming would have freed them soon, no doubt. It seems all the reports of massively increased ice at the Poles has been ignored by this bunch of bright lights by half. This episode just proves the adage you cannot fix stupid.
The stupid runs deep in the global warmest.
Carbon traps.
One example: If CO2 is at a high PPM level, the respiration, transpiration, and nutrient absorption of plants will GREATLY increase.
Root development, stem girth, and fruits/flowers vastly improve. VASTLY. Plants, trees, and flowers/fruits get bigger as more CO2 is available.
Science.
Photosynthesis definition: the process by which green plants use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
Carbon dioxide = energy. Energy = growth. Growth = carbon traps; plants metabolize more carbon as the plant grows, and that is what plants are supposed to do, grow. More C02, the more grow you get.
That is the carbon trap.
Carbon dioxide gets trapped when plants make food. With more Carbon dioxide you provide more food, and with more food you have more trapped Carbon dioxide.
With higher concentrations (ppm) of CO2, plants can handle higher temperatures.
Evidence. What’s the average temp and under canopy ppm of CO2 in the Amazon Jungle. Yeah.
What Jungle produces a hotbed of oxygen? Oxygen basically being the farts of carbon dioxide eating organisms. The Amazon Rainforest produces about 20% of the earth’s oxygen.
Global warmists – rent (grant) seekers – ignore inconvenient data points.