Restating the Obvious

Iced

Before we get back to the serious business of worrying about the economy, let's take a few moments to hoot and jeer at another group of nitwits who took all that global warming nonsense to heart.

In this case, some fools who heard that the Arctic was going to be ice free this summer and thought they'd kayak to the North Pole. To save the polar bears, you know, and to raise the consciousness of the world's young people.

They got just about as far north as Spitsbergen  -- a place people have been going to for centuries to mine coal, in sailing ships, for pete's sake -- before being blocked off by miles and miles of ice, about 600 miles, in fact.

This is Nature's way of saying, "You're a dope."

At that, they got off lucky. They were sponsored by one of the big  English tabloids, the Mirror. They were too young to remember and too stupid to check, but I remember when rowing  across the Atlantic was a fad, briefly, in the early '70s. English tabs sponsored boats, which often set off from where I was then working, near Cape Henry, Virginia. At least, they did until a boat sponsored by a paper called the People (not the same as the American magazine) set off into a nor'easter.

The boat was eventually found, upside down, but the rowers were not.

English papers have no shame.

Hat tip: The Reference Frame