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The quest to re-create Shackleton’s whisky
Your wee dram of SCIENCE! How they managed to re-create the whisky from Mackinlay & Co. that Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition took along in 1907: How was the re-creation carried out? Dr....
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New evidence that the Medieval Warm Period was not local to Europe
Lewis Page summarizes some recent findings published in the peer-reviewed Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal: More peer-reviewed science contradicting the warming-alarmist “scientific...
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The hazards facing the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) has run into far harsher sea and ice conditions than they’d banked on, and it raises questions about the scientific validity of the expedition: The purpose...
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Antarctic climate researchers still not home-free
Remember the story about the Australian climate researchers trapped in the Antarctic ice? The good news from a few days back — that all the passengers of the MS Akademik Shokalskiy (including...
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US icebreaker dispatched to assist Chinese icebreaker in Antarctic
The Australian is reporting that the US Coast Guard’s Polar Star is enroute to assist the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long and the chartered Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy: The US Coast Guard’s Polar Star...
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Fortunate wind shift helps free trapped Antarctic vessels
BBC News updates us on the situation: The Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese icebreaker Xue Long have broken free from Antarctic ice where they had been stranded for several days....
View ArticleEmperor penguins at risk
A somewhat confusing report from BBC News says that due to warming in the Antarctic, there is now record ice extent, which means Emperor penguins have to travel much further to find open water. The...
View ArticleThe Great Explorer – Ernest Shackleton I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
Published on 1 Aug 2016 Ernest Shackelton set sail for the Antarctic when most young men in Europe were setting sail to fight a war. While millions of them died, he was completely isolated trying to...
View ArticleTipping toward a new Ice Age
Matt Ridley on the possibility that our current interglacial period — the time period during which all of human history has played out from before the start of agricultural civilization down to today —...
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