A third ship arrived, but could not reach the stranded researchers, either. The rescuers finally used a helicopter when researchers were able to build a crude heliport on the ice that surrounded them, but a barge brought in to move them outside the ice couldn’t reach the Chinese vessel intended for their transport — so the helicopter landed on another ice floe near an Australian ship that arrived.
Oddly, the CNN reports seem to be missing something fairly important to understand the reason why the researchers were out in the Antarctic seas in the first place:
CNN giving the researchers stuck in the ice a lot of play. Not hearing a lot, tho, about what they were researching.
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) January 2, 2014At least the word “climate” appears once in their web report, although not as an explanation. It doesn’t appear at all in the CBS report. The Associated Press report similarly avoids this key data point. Scott Johnson called this expedition the “ship of fools,” and perhaps that can be applied to these reports on the denouement, too.
◼ Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission - Newsbusters
In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming.
Good news: global warming activists finally rescued from icebound ship. Can the rest of us be rescued from global warming activists?
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) January 2, 2014◼ The Antarctic ‘research’ fiasco - Watts Up With That?
◼ Now that the ‘Ship of Fools’ is safe in Antarctica, tough questions need to be asked - Watts Up With That?
