It's summertime in the Antarctic and the living is easy unless you captain an icebreaker.A group of scientists that were on a mission to measure the loss of ice due to the effects of global warming in the Antarctic end up with their research vessel trapped in the ice. I'm not sure where they planned on measuring the ice that has been lost but I'm sure that with global warming there are palm trees on some beach in Antarctica. Too much ice prevents researchers from measuring ice loss.
The U.S. Coast Guard heavy ice breaker Polar Star is on the way to rescue two vessels, one of them the research vessel, the other a Chinese icebreaker that attempted to recue the research vessel. Fossil fueled vessel rescues two more fossil fueled vessels that's one big carbon footprint.
For all of those of you in the U.S. that are going to experience a polar vortex think of those palm lined beaches in Antarctica and turn your thermostats down, remember you need to reduce your carbon footprint.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Seattle-based-Coast-Guard-ice-breaker-to--238724411.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/12/30/stuck-in-our-own-experiment-leader-trapped-team-insists-polar-ice-is-melting/
http://news.msn.com/us/below-zero-temps-push-into-midwest-northeast
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-catastrophe_773268.html#
