March 2007 Archives

Damaged gear, frostbite, extreme cold combine to compromise explorers' safety

Statement from explorers to students and teachers who are following expedition included.

WARD HUNT ISLAND, CANADA (March 12, 2007) -- World-renowned polar explorers and educators, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, today suspended their historic expedition to the North Pole seven days in, citing severe safety concerns due to a combination of damaged gear, frostbite and extreme cold.

By canceling their expedition, their safety concerns are no longer physically threatening, though the two feared continuing the journey would have increased the likelihood of their endangerment.

By John Perna

Government uses panic over global warming to increase its own power by convincing people that they are in danger, and that they can only be saved by letting the government take total control.

Here is an undeniable scientific truth: The volume of the water that is produced when ice melts is exactly equal to the volume of the water that the ice displaced, when it was floating. Water expands when it freezes into ice. That is why freezing pipes break. That is why ice floats on top of water.

If every iceberg in the world were to melt, the level of the ocean would not go up by one inch, or by one millimeter. If every iceberg in the world were to melt, the level of the ocean would not go up at all.

by Elmer Beauregurad

Not only did Al Gore Win 2 Oscars for his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" or as I like to call it "A Convenient Lie", but even such an obvious winner as "Cars" was snubbed for more a "politically correct" nominee.

The movie "Cars" which stars CO2 emitting cars, was no match for a movie that dealt with the imagined perils of those same emissions "Happy Feet".