The symbolic demise of global warming?

Three British explorers who set out for the Arctic five weeks ago to test for global warming by measuring the thickness of ice are bogged down and possibly at risk of their lives because of unexpectedly cold weather and other difficult conditions.

“We’re hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice and, because we’re not moving, the colder we get,” said Pen Hadow, the leader of the expedition.

Indulging in a bit of cheeky Schadenfreude (“Answer: colder than they thought”), Australian reporter and blogger Andrew Bolt suggests that this is a story of poetic justice, since the explorers are, as he repeatedly puts it with relish, “global warming believers.” This seems not only sadistic, but untrue. The February 13 news story that Bolt links about the beginning of the expedition says nothing to indicate that the team are warming believers; it describes them simply as scientists seeking to gather data.

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Leonard D. writes:

I see that you don’t understand. The unexpected weather they are experiencing is unusual, that is, hard, cold proof of “climate change.” How could weather possibly be unusual unless the climate is changing? And “climate change” is just the modern more inclusive way of saying global warming. Who could be against inclusion? So, it’s clear that any unusual weather anywhere, hot or cold, is proof that unless we quickly adopt massive top-down control of the global economy, and reduce our standards of living to those of the 19th century, the world is doomed, and we will all burn and/or freeze to death. You don’t want to burn and/or freeze, do you?

LA replies:

Thank you for the explanation. I surely do not want to undergo, uh, either of those things.

Adela G. writes:

Apparently global warming is proceeding at a glacial pace.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 18, 2009 02:02 AM | Send