THE STORY:
December 25, 2013: Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, became trapped in polar ice. Three rescue attempts were thwarted by the high levels of sea ice and blizzard weather conditions in what is summer in the Antarctic.
January 2, 2014: All 52 passengers were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2. The crew elected to stay with the ship, which has enough supplies for “a very long time.”
THE MEDIA COVERAGE:
98% of the MSM news stories between Dec. 25 and Jan. 2 failed to mention the REASON the ship was in the area, referring to the stranded as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” rather than “climate change researchers.”
But Chris Turney, the expedition’s leader, is a professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, who wrote on his personal website that the purpose of the expedition was to “discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”
If this story had gone the other way and made climate deniers look stupid, every MSM news story would have led with that fact and multiple “news” hosts at MSNBC and Morning Joe would’ve fallen out of their chairs laughing about it.
Yes, I do know that polar bears do not live at the South Pole. I think the cartoon includes them to be extra ironic about the Al Gore thing.
Source:
polination.blog 
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And it’s good stuff. Can’t get enough of this shaming event. 🙂
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We’re still in the deep freeze up here. My husband had to go to the hospital yesterday for some routine tests related to his heart condition, and he said it was the perfect time to go, because they’d had so many cancellations that the staff was sitting around with nothing to do — he never got in and out so fast! That made me think it was probably a good day to go to the chiropractor, so I did, and it was great — no wait at all. That inspired me to go to the bank and grocery store as well, where I also got my errands done in near-record time, due to practically having the place to myself. 🙂
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Man, people really hate the cold, don’t they? Glad your DH was ok. Tests all good?
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Everything’s fine. For a guy who’s gonna be 68 in a few months, he’s in good shape. 😀
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The fact that neither one of us minds the cold in the least probably has something to do with it — cold is a preservative, after all.
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