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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| And now, for the ultimate "Gerbil Worming" irony .... |
| 2014-01-01 |
| Anthony Watts, "warming" sceptic and mastermind of the Watt's Up With That blog, helped provide weather information and forecasts for the WUWT and WeatherBell help KUSI-TV with a weather forecasting request from ice-trapped ship in Antarctica Akademik Shokalskiy Apparently, irony is a dish best served ice-cold. :-D |
| Posted by:Barbara |
| #5 there's a lot of "MV Donner Pass" type jokes going around. Good one! But after the snarkery and humor, what I like about this story is that rather than gloating over the misfortune or mocking the warmist's children in the current leftist style, Watts & company spring into action to try and rustle up some forecasting data to help people whose agenda they adamantly oppose and who, given the current climate (ahem) of the warming debate seem unlikely to act in kind. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-01-01 19:52 |
| #4 At first skim, I don't believe a word of it, but I think that's gotta be my feelgood story of [checks dateline] 2013. Sheer genius. The folks Coleman bugs will be losing their minds. Fun fun fun. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-01-01 19:14 |
| #3 there's a lot of "MV Donner Pass" type jokes going around. Too bad that they will not be left to a suitable, if ironic ending. |
| Posted by: nguard 2014-01-01 19:02 |
| #2 I also pointed out that the Australian scientists on-board were climatologists, and not operational weather forecasters, and finding this sort of weather data probably wasnÂ’t in their skill set. But I bet they could get a grant to study the problem. |
| Posted by: Matt 2014-01-01 18:50 |
| #1 Perhaps they could return next year at the same time when there won't be as much ice due to all the gerbil worming? |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-01-01 18:36 |