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12/29/13, "
"Published on Dec 29, 2013"
"The SY Aurora anchored at
Commonwealth Bay in 1912. The expedition, using the ship SY Aurora
commanded by Captain John King Davis, departed from Hobart on 2 December
1911, landed at Cape Denison (named after Hugh Denison, a major backer
of the expedition) on Commonwealth Bay on 8 January 1912, and
established the Main Base.
Cinematography by Frank Hurley.
Archived by the Australian Antarctic Division http://mawsonshuts.antarctica.gov.au/"
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"Early rescue efforts to break the ship free were stymied by thick “multi-layered” ice more than ten-feet deep."
The 1912 video shows a much warmer Antarctic than the Global Warming research team finds in 2013. Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in 2013 has trapped an Australian led AGW research mission in many feet of ice.
Three ice breakers have tried to rescue them, but the ice was too thick and all 3 had to turn back. Helicopter rescue has thus far been impossible due to bad weather. NY Times reports the global warming research ship began to list: 12/27/13, "Professor Turney told Sky News
that before Christmas Day, the conditions changed when those on board
had been conducting research, and they realized they could not get free
of the ice. The ship was listing, and the captain put out an alert on
Christmas Eve." image of trapped ship, AFP
12/27/13, "On Twitter, Documenting an Antarctic Journey and a Countdown to a Rescue," NY Times, The Lede blog, Christine Hauser. Map image shows Commonwealth Bay, via Sky News
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12/30/13, "Antarctic ship: Rescue halted by fierce weather," BBC
"An Australian icebreaker trying to reach the Russian scientific mission ship was forced to turn back. Earlier attempts by Chinese and French icebreakers to reach the Russian ship Academician Shokalskiy were also foiled by the thick ice....Earlier, it was thought that passengers could be winched to safety by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker, which had to abort its rescue mission on Saturday. However, AMSA spokeswoman Lisa Martin told Reuters news agency: "We can't fly a helicopter in these conditions either. There is essentially nothing we can do at this point of time.""...
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"Scientists say".....
12/30/13, "The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker, on the Shokalskiy, said scientists on board thought the ice was much thicker than usual for this time of year."...
Cinematography by Frank Hurley.
Archived by the Australian Antarctic Division http://mawsonshuts.antarctica.gov.au/"
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"Early rescue efforts to break the ship free were stymied by thick “multi-layered” ice more than ten-feet deep."
The 1912 video shows a much warmer Antarctic than the Global Warming research team finds in 2013. Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in 2013 has trapped an Australian led AGW research mission in many feet of ice.
12/27/13, "On Twitter, Documenting an Antarctic Journey and a Countdown to a Rescue," NY Times, The Lede blog, Christine Hauser. Map image shows Commonwealth Bay, via Sky News
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12/30/13, "Antarctic ship: Rescue halted by fierce weather," BBC
"An Australian icebreaker trying to reach the Russian scientific mission ship was forced to turn back. Earlier attempts by Chinese and French icebreakers to reach the Russian ship Academician Shokalskiy were also foiled by the thick ice....Earlier, it was thought that passengers could be winched to safety by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker, which had to abort its rescue mission on Saturday. However, AMSA spokeswoman Lisa Martin told Reuters news agency: "We can't fly a helicopter in these conditions either. There is essentially nothing we can do at this point of time.""...
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"Scientists say".....
12/30/13, "The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker, on the Shokalskiy, said scientists on board thought the ice was much thicker than usual for this time of year."...
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NSIDC Sea Ice Index chart, Southern Hemisphere, Nov. 2013 (click Antarctic tab)
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The ice-stranded group insists "sea ice is disappearing due to climate change:" (Ed. note: In this context, the scientific definition of the term "climate change" is excess CO2 that exists only in China but for which the US taxpayer must pay). "ICE-STRANDED EXPLORERS' MESSAGE: A statement from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition:
We're stuck in our own experiment. We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We followed Sir Douglas Mawson's footsteps into Commonwealth Bay, and are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship. Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change"...
[otherwise known as excess CO2 that exists only in China but for which the US taxpayer must pay in perpetuity, ed.],
"but here ice is building up. We have found this has changed the system on many levels. The increase in sea ice has freshened the seawater below, so much so that you can almost drink it. This change will have impacts on the deep ocean circulation. Underwater, forests of algae are dying as sea-ice blocks the light. Who can say what effects the regional circulation changes may have on the ice sheet of the Antarctic plateau, or whether the low number of seals suggests changes to their population."
------------ 12/30/13, "Aurora Australis is forced to abandon bit to rescue stricken Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy from ice," news.com.au =================== 12/28/13, "Stranded ship awaits Australian ice-breaker in Antarctic," WorldNews.NBCNews.com, By Daniella Silva and Alexander Smith .
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