This is a crisis that we cannot let go to waste. At long last, a bunch of global warming cranks have put their money where their mouths were and went off to prove, in a practical way, just how much global warming has harmed the environment. And instead of finding the cove where Douglas Mawson had landed a century ago ice free and easy to navigate, they are now stuck in ice and with some luck may end up spending the next twelve months pondering their stupidity, half the time in total darkness.

This is a massive embarrassment for the global warming industry. This is an undeniable failure to use their scientific knowledge in a practical way. They have, instead, demonstrated that global warming is a fraud, with no useful insights into anything. They know nothing whatsoever about anything in relation to the actual climate on the planet earth. They have a single theory that has been tested and failed on one scale after another but on they persist, inflicting billions in costs upon the rest of us.

Chris Turney and his band of fools must become one of the major moments in the history of this debate. This is not an event that can be allowed to fade into the background, to disappear the moment these clowns are finally on dry land again. This has to become the great teaching moment where it is recognised that those who peddle global warming are idiots, absolute fools. Speaking on behalf of global warming should mark someone as naive and ignorant.

How to do this must be a major part of the thought processes that go into thinking these questions through. To christurney must become a verb meaning to believe global warming is true in a suicidal way.

UPDATE: My letter to Scott Johnson at Powerline. I sent him this post from Andrew Bolt which he put up on the Powerline Picks. I have now written to Scott again with the following note:

Dear Scott

I am very pleased to see you have put that up on your “picks” list because this is a story that needs to get around. My worry is that we here in Australia are too provincial to have an effect on any major part of the debate; if this had happened in relation to some Italian academic, say, it would have almost no impact here or I imagine anywhere else. We see it for what it is because we live here and understand our own turf quite well. Yet the great interest is that an actual climate sciences academic from one of our more important universities decided to demonstrate the impact of climate change, and has now done so but in a way that shows the opposite of what he intended to prove. We don’t often get such clear cut demonstrations of just how off the planet the global warming crowd is which is why this is a moment that should be seized on if we can.

Douglas Mawson sailed there at the end of 1913. The intent a hundred years later was to demonstrate how much easier it would be this time because of all the warming that had gone on but instead, found it not only impossible, but they are now embedded in an ice floe that may keep them there for a year if things go really bad. But like with everything else about the news today, it’s not really a story until it is not just carried but harped on by the ABNBCBS. That, I’m afraid, is not going to happen. But we can but try.

Kind regards

Steve