Global Warming Trek Cancelled Due To Snow
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Kate | Monday, June 6, 2005 |
Extreme weather conditions forced two U.S. explorers to abandon what would have been the first summertime crossing of the Arctic Ocean, environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday. A spokeswoman for Greenpeace said Eric Larsen and Lonnie Dupre were tired but in good condition after 23 days of their voyage. The two Minnesota men were evacuated by a civilian helicopter on Friday. They were attempting the 1,250-mile (2,000 km) journey by canoe and skis from Cape Arctichesky in Siberia across the North Pole to Ellesmere Island in Canada. A statement from Greenpeace said the pair encountered unusual heavy snow and ice conditions, as well as some aggressive polar bears.
Dupre and Larsen were attempting the crossing to call attention to global warming.
About the Author: Kate is a freelance commercial and automotive airbrush artist living in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was one of the original guest bloggers at OTB in November 2004 and soon joined the permanent stable, contributing through January 2007.
Eventually, she turned to writing full time at her own blog, small dead animals, which was voted the Best Canadian Blog in the 2004 Weblog Awards and has been generally considered that country's best blog ever since.
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"Hungry" polar bears ,
would have been better.
Any time Gore gives a speech on Global Warming the weather turns bitter cold someplace on the face of the earth!
"Global Warming Trek Cancelled Due To Snow"
I'm sick and tired of enviro-fascists. Sounds like those two got a heaping cup of karma.
I think they said the cold weather was down to the world getting hotter
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