The US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star being sent to the Antarctic to rescue the two ships trapped in the ice sheet, a Russian "research vessel" and the Chinese icebreaker that was sent to rescue them. Just in case the global warming crowd doesn't know, the Polar Star burns 49.5 gallons of fuel a nautical mile. (Based on a carrying capacity of 1.4 millions gallons and a cruising range of 28,275 nautical miles).
The scientists that believe that the planet is irreversibly warming are now four ships and a helicopter into fossil fuel use trying to extract themselves and their ships from the expanding ice sheet at the bottom of the world. I don’t have enough information about the other ships to even estimate the total amount of carbon being released in the process, but the irony being released is off the charts.
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