Willem-Jan Markerink
13 maart 2007, 20:00
"San Nicolás" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected] oups.com:
> Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek By PATRICK CONDON, Associated
> Press Writer
> Mon Mar 12, 5:28 PM ET
>
> MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to
> global warming was called off after one of the explorers got
> frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday
> called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic
> Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and
> extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their
> electronic equipment.
>
>
> "Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part
> of
> the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
>
>
> On Monday, the pair was at Canada's Ward Hunt Island, awaiting a
> plane
> to take them to Resolute, Canada, where they were to return to
> Minneapolis later this week.
>
>
> Bancroft, 51, became the first woman to cross the North Pole on a
> 1986
> expedition. She and Arnesen, 53, of Oslo, Norway, were the first
> women
> to ski across Antarctica in 2001.
>
>
> But the latest trek got off to a bad start. The day they set off from
> Ward Hunt Island, a plane landing near the women hit their gear,
> punching a hole in Bancroft's sled and damaging one of Arnesen's
> snowshoes.
>
>
> They repaired the snowshoe with binding from a ski, but Atwood said
> the patch job created pressure on Arnesen's left foot, which led to
> blisters that then turned into frostbite.
>
>
> Then there was the cold - quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then
> Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the
> temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside
> temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.
>
>
> "My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off
> was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said.
>
>
> She said Bancroft and Arnesen were applying hot water bottles to
> Arnesen's foot every night, but had to wake up periodically because
> the bottles froze.
>
>
> The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups
> by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic
> evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek
> across
> the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she
> and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas
> where polar ice has melted.
>
>
> Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to
> global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.
>
>
> "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with
> global
> warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global
> warming is unpredictability."
>
One of the things I see is an ever increasing panic in explaining the
opposite of ecofascist theories.
Ecofascist Rule #1: the model is sacred
Ecofascist Rule #2: data will always be interpreted in line with the model
Ecofascist Rule #3: if data falls outside of model, discard immediately
Alsof het daar godgloeiendegodverdomme altijd constant X graden celcius is.
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<[email protected]>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
news:[email protected] oups.com:
> Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek By PATRICK CONDON, Associated
> Press Writer
> Mon Mar 12, 5:28 PM ET
>
> MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to
> global warming was called off after one of the explorers got
> frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday
> called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic
> Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and
> extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their
> electronic equipment.
>
>
> "Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part
> of
> the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
>
>
> On Monday, the pair was at Canada's Ward Hunt Island, awaiting a
> plane
> to take them to Resolute, Canada, where they were to return to
> Minneapolis later this week.
>
>
> Bancroft, 51, became the first woman to cross the North Pole on a
> 1986
> expedition. She and Arnesen, 53, of Oslo, Norway, were the first
> women
> to ski across Antarctica in 2001.
>
>
> But the latest trek got off to a bad start. The day they set off from
> Ward Hunt Island, a plane landing near the women hit their gear,
> punching a hole in Bancroft's sled and damaging one of Arnesen's
> snowshoes.
>
>
> They repaired the snowshoe with binding from a ski, but Atwood said
> the patch job created pressure on Arnesen's left foot, which led to
> blisters that then turned into frostbite.
>
>
> Then there was the cold - quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then
> Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the
> temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside
> temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.
>
>
> "My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off
> was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said.
>
>
> She said Bancroft and Arnesen were applying hot water bottles to
> Arnesen's foot every night, but had to wake up periodically because
> the bottles froze.
>
>
> The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups
> by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic
> evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek
> across
> the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she
> and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas
> where polar ice has melted.
>
>
> Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to
> global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.
>
>
> "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with
> global
> warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global
> warming is unpredictability."
>
One of the things I see is an ever increasing panic in explaining the
opposite of ecofascist theories.
Ecofascist Rule #1: the model is sacred
Ecofascist Rule #2: data will always be interpreted in line with the model
Ecofascist Rule #3: if data falls outside of model, discard immediately
Alsof het daar godgloeiendegodverdomme altijd constant X graden celcius is.
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<[email protected]>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]