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Arctic Kayak Stunt Ends 600 Miles from North Pole
“I’m going to try and get all the way to the North Pole to show the world what is happening,” the 38-year-old said after launching his Polar Defense Project expedition on the River Thames in London.
“It shouldn’t be possible. But this might be the year that it could be. I hope I can’t go all the way. “Failure would equal success in this expedition,” he said.
The Times of India: ‘Lewis Gordon Pugh on ‘melting’ North Pole trail’
Well, Pugh succeeded in failing, ending up about 600 miles short of the North Pole, around 81.5 degrees north :
October 15th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
[...] Has anyone in the main-stream media since told you that Pugh had to call off his plan, still 600 miles from the North Pole, when his kayak ran into too much ice? [...]
October 16th, 2008 at 6:25 am
These idiots never get any publicity when their plans go wrong. The whole climate change story is a major scam.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:09 am
This Lewis Gordon Pugh is *****. I actually stumbled on some website a month or so ago, it was called something like ourcivilization.com, and one of the scientists on this website said that the earth’s temperature has dropped 0.13 degrees since 1979.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:11 am
[...] few months ago Lewis Pugh and the Polar Defense Project set out on a much-media-hyped journey to paddle a kayak to an ice-free North Pole to show how bad global warming was. Unfortunately for Pugh, he was stopped by ice 600 miles from [...]
September 7th, 2010 at 11:49 am
A professor emeritus told us he predicted global warming 34 years ago. Princeton University still has an office for him.
We take visitors to the rocky mountains. Year by year we watch a certain glacier recede.
We see on our news the Inuit telling about the changes in their way of life and polar bears trying to find ice to hunt on.
Look at the tremendous heat Russia had this summer. In Alberta it has been cool, but in Eastern Canada it has been very hot.
BC has huge forest fires. Because we have not had – 35 tempertatures in the forests of BC and Alberta the pine beetles have been munching through forests leaving them tinder dry.
I enjoy the winters being warmer, but there is a price as you can read.
The pollution from the tar sands in Alberta is creating strange cancers in the Indigenous people downstream. The petroleum companies hold sway in this province. Thank goodness for Dr. David Schindler and his studies of the Athabasca river and for a medical doctor speaking out on the health of the people living downstream.
We saw a film about the oil companies and Ken Sarawiwa. It was terrible to see huge pipelines crossing small farms and enormous gas flares. One much smaller flare burned on our farm. Four of our animals died in a week on our farm. Usually we lose 3 cattle in a bad year.
in a small city near us 54 tonnes of benzene was put up in one year by industry. The figures have improved since then. We saw a facility in Holland that takes benzene and H2S out of gas emissions. Shell helped develop it, but it was not used by them in this city.
We have to change the way we operate in this world global warming or not. This includes farmers.
Sincerely,
Jenny Bocock
September 7th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Polar bears are fine, aside from the 500 hundred or so hunted each year. Measured/observed records are too short – nothing unusual is happening to weather or climate in the context of the warming and cooling that has taken place over the past 12,000 years.
30 years of observations don’t support a big ‘enhanced greenhouse effect’:
http://climateresearchnews.com/2010/08/new-paper-by-mckitrick-et-al-on-tropical-troposphere-trends/
And in the UK we just had the coldest August for 17 years.