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03-18-2009, 12:12 PM
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Polar Explorers Run Short of Food; Weather Stops Supply Flights
By Alex Morales
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Three U.K. explorers bound for the North Pole on a scientific expedition to study global warming said they are close to running out of food after “brutal” weather conditions halted three attempts to fly in supplies.
The support team hopes to decide within hours on when it can send an airplane to land on nearby ice with provisions, Tori Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Catlin Arctic Survey in London, said in an interview today.
“We’re hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice,” expedition leader Pen Hadow said in a statement e-mailed yesterday by his team. “Waiting is almost the worst part of an expedition as we’re in the lap of the weather gods.”
The severe weather is jeopardizing a journey aimed at projecting when global warming may melt the entire Arctic Ocean cap, a phenomenon that scientists say might trigger further gains in temperature.
Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley are 18 days into their 100-day, 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) journey to the pole, during which they planned to use a custom radar to take as many as 13 million ice-thickness measurements. They aim to help scientists gauge how quickly the Arctic sea ice is thinning.
Previous estimates of melting have been based on less reliable depth soundings made by satellites and submarines, which can’t distinguish ice from snow. Scientists have made few surface measurements that are highly accurate because of difficulties in traveling on the ice cap.
“We’ve located a suitable airstrip,” Taylor said. “We hope the plane will be able to land.”
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03-18-2009, 12:36 PM
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Gawd....I misread the entire story....
......I thought they had volunteered to feed the poor, starving polar bears.....
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03-18-2009, 01:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred Douglass
......I thought they had volunteered to feed the poor, starving polar bears.....
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They will be like Beef jerky after a few freeze thaw cycles! 
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03-18-2009, 03:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred Douglass
......I thought they had volunteered to feed the poor, starving polar bears.....
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Wrong pole for bears.........................just as there are no penguins at the North Pole.
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03-18-2009, 03:18 PM
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Wrong pole for bears.........................just as there are no penguins at the North Pole. |
Polar bears have gone extinct on the South Pole? Now the penguin population is about to explode. This is all just proof that global warming is real! 
We need Al to ship some Polar Bears and DoDo birds to the South Pole! |
03-18-2009, 03:54 PM
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Quote:
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Wrong pole for bears.........................just as there are no penguins at the North Pole. |
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Polar Explorers Run Short of Food; Weather Stops Supply Flights
By Alex Morales
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- Three U.K. explorers bound for the North Pole on a scientific expedition to study global warming said they are close to running out of food after “brutal” weather conditions halted three attempts to fly in supplies.
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Article does say North Pole.
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03-18-2009, 05:56 PM
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Article does say North Pole.
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Well, what's the problem then? Why wait for the takeout place to deliver, when you can just eat the polar bears? |
03-18-2009, 07:33 PM
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As far as I can remember (reading).....
...polar bears are on the Norf' Po and penguins are on the Souf'--and ne'er the twain shall meet...
However, I could be wrong......
And, due to my chronically terrifically good luck (and our mutual Rich Uncle) I've been to the Ingerham (Sp?) Basin---40 degrees W. Long and 55-60 N. Lat. in Phucking Phebruary! Trust me, you'd like it better in Barbados or Tonga---your choice!
Carrion,
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03-18-2009, 01:09 PM
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Stuck on stupid II..... Hey!, some folks out there believe this idiot.
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/...global+warming
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03-18-2009, 01:42 PM
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Hey Perry.......
....that global warming lemming, "Steve", actually has light blond hair! What looks like dye or dark hair oil is actually........well, you know............
Ar-ar-ar-ar-ar.
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03-18-2009, 01:50 PM
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Fred, I'm still basking in your use of, noisome and nattering, for our favorite oblivion's.
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