The ABC article – Aurora Australis returns – says,
“The Antarctic ship, Aurora Australis, has sailed into Hobart after spending days stuck in ice.”
Days ? – try 21 days.
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Warwick;
a little O/T but the BoM has issued a calendar.
The Weekend Australian (on p.36) notes that the Centre for Independent Studies has discovered that the BoM has spent nearly $30,000 setting up a dedicated call centre for calendar sales in Adelaide and another $10,000 taking on casual staff in Perth to handle sales.
As the previous item was about a Polish maker of coffins whose calendar features their product in silvan surroundings draped with nude models, the Australian hastens to add that the Bureau’s calendar doesn’t feature any models in rain drenched T-shirts or who have lost their clothes in a hurricane, so there is some doubt as to the need for a call centre etc. especially as the calendar is available (as the only product) from the Bureau’s online store.
Warwick – Quite. The ship was 21 days late on a 32-day mission. They had to switch off engines while stuck on the way back to save fuel, and the delay was so bad that they now have to rearrange the whole summer resupply programme:
“To ensure the Antarctic season can progress with minimal disruption, we have combined the next two voyages into one extended voyage visiting Macquarie Island before continuing on to resupply Casey station.
“This will preserve the work plans of the majority of projects scheduled for the Australian Antarctic program for the current season,” Dr Fleming said.
This is in the Antarctic Division’s media release too, and again ignored by the ABC. But imagine the performance they would be making about global warming if there was less ice down there than usual.
PS re Graeme’s comment, the BoM’s calendars are very professional, I have several on my wall. It wouldn’t surprise me if the $40K they are spending on sales staff was still making them money. Whether they should be in a commercial business is of course open to debate.
Exactly Dave – any media about AAD research usually contains the forelock-touching references to – Drumroll – GLOBAL WARMING –
Many people believe Antarctica is melting and hence the expanded sea ice.
In fact most far south data series are so short they could not reliably say anything about long term trends.
There is a 30 day animation here which shows a thicker (darker) patch developing off Davis which caught them on their return from 13 Nov to 26th.- if you use the controls to slow the rate down it is much easier to view.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/CT/animate.antarctic.color.3.html