Ship of Fools

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Mark Steyn writes, “Eco-warriors stranded in the Antarctic! It’s too good to be true” — no, it’s the perfect target for Steyn, in the London Spectator:

Yes, yes, just to get the obligatory ‘of courses’ out of the way up front: of course ‘weather’ is not the same as ‘climate’; and of course the thickest iciest ice on record could well be evidence of ‘global warming’, just as 40-and-sunny and a 35-below blizzard and 12 degrees and partly cloudy with occasional showers are all apparently manifestations of ‘climate change’; and of course the global warm-mongers are entirely sincere in their belief that the massive carbon footprint of their rescue operation can be offset by the planting of wall-to-wall trees the length and breadth of Australia, Britain, America and continental Europe.

But still: you’d have to have a heart as cold and unmovable as Commonwealth Bay ice not to be howling with laughter at the exquisite symbolic perfection of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition ‘stuck in our own experiment’, as they put it. I confess I was hoping it might all drag on a bit longer and the cultists of the ecopalypse would find themselves drawing straws as to which of their number would be first on the roasting spit. On Douglas Mawson’s original voyage, he and his surviving comrade wound up having to eat their dogs. I’m not sure there were any on this expedition, so they’d probably have to make do with the Guardian reporters. Forced to wait a year to be rescued, Sir Douglas later recalled, ‘Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips.’ Now there’s a man who’s serious about reducing his footprint.

Heh. You know what to do next.

And since it’s now on Twitter, here’s that awesome Sharknado-style movie poster Photoshop on “POLARVORTEX!” from Anthropocon (at least I assume they’re the source) that I mentioned yesterday:

Can’t wait until it’s released! —> @instapundit @DanJoseph78 @StephenGutowski @JoeSchoffstall @Raffiwilliams pic.twitter.com/TXv3lL574a

— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) January 8, 2014