{"id":12508,"date":"2014-01-03T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12508"},"modified":"2014-01-03T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:15:41","slug":"media-totally-ignores-that-ice-locked-ship-was-on-global-warming-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12508","title":{"rendered":"Media totally ignores that ice-locked ship was on global warming mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Akademic Shokalskiy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks\u2019 reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change.<\/p>\n

The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.<\/p>\n

In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as \u201cpassengers,\u201d \u201ctrackers\u201d and even \u201ctourists,\u201d without a word about climate change or global warming.<\/p>\n

Chris Turney, the expedition\u2019s leader, is a professor of climate change at the University of South Wales. According to Turney\u2019s personal website, the purpose of the expedition is to \u201cdiscover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty-two crew members stayed with the ship for the time being, as the scientists and researchers were rescued. According to CNN, the ship has enough supplies for \u201ca very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three rescue attempts had been thwarted by growing levels of sea ice and weather conditions.<\/p>\n

“Outside, blizzard conditions packing an abnormal amount of ice in to the area for this time of the year, summer in the Antarctic,” ABC News Correspondent Gio Benitez reported on \u201cGood Morning America\u201d Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 2, all 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby Australian icebreaker ship which had tried, and failed, to plow through the ice and free the Akademic Shokalskiy, on Dec. 30. \u201cGood Morning America\u201d said on Dec. 30, that \u201cthe ice could be as thick as 13 feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Fox News, Turney admitted \u201cwe\u2019re stuck in our own experiment.\u201d They reported on Dec. 30, that a statement from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said, \u201cSea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was only one news story out of 41 that mentioned climate change. That was CBS \u201cThis Morning\u201d Dec. 30. \u201cDespite being frozen at a standstill, the team\u2019s research on climate change and Antarctic wildlife is moving forward,\u201d CBS News Correspondent Don Dahler said. That night, all three evening news programs still failed to make any mention of the group\u2019s climate change research.<\/p>\n

The MRC\u2019s Business and Media Institute was unable to view a copy of CBS \u201cSunday Morning\u201d for Dec. 29, so that broadcast had to be excluded from the tally.<\/p>\n

Before their ship got stuck in ice, the researchers were following the trail of the explorer Douglas Mawson, who was stranded in Antarctica for more than a year, beginning in December 1912, according to the website about the expedition. –\u00a0http:\/\/newsbusters.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks\u2019 reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change. The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, … Continue reading “Media totally ignores that ice-locked ship was on global warming mission”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[7935,4019,7937,7936,7934],"class_list":["post-12508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-akademic-shokalskiy","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming-hoax","tag-ice-locked-ship","tag-russian-ship"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/shakalskiy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12510,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions\/12510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}