Video - 'Odysseus Global warming odyssey' - Global warming activists’ ice capades.

Video - 'Odysseus odyssey' - Global warming activists’ ice capades. HT: SunNewsNetwork.

One hundred and one years ago, Douglas Mawson led a ship of explorers south from Australia to Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, where they spent two years mapping the icy continent. He barely made it back alive; several of his crew didn’t.

Last month, a group of Australian global warming activists, led by a professor named Chris Turney, set out to retrace Mawson’s voyage. Their goal, according to one journalist along for the ride, was to “examine how the eastern Antarctic, one of the most pristine, remote and untouched parts of the world’s surface, has fared after a hundred years of climate changes.”

So it was a PR mission, to prove how global warming had changed Antarctica. Turney said Mawson’s original trip “provides this incredibly good baseline — we’re going to repeat the measurements and see how much has changed over the last century.”

But to call Turney’s trip a scientific mission isn’t entirely accurate. It was packed with tourists, environmental reporters, an Australian Green Party senator, and even Turney’s wife and kids.

It was a party — literally. Christmas parties, drinking parties, secret Santa parties, even some salsa dancing. Adventure tourists paid $8,000 and up to come along. 54 passengers, plus the crew. Of course Australian taxpayers covered the majority of the $1.5 million adventure.

All was going so well, with Turney blogging up a storm and doing media interviews via satellite.

And then the ship got stuck in pack ice. In the middle of the Antarctic summer.

Seventy kilometres further out to sea than the coastline where Mawson had landed.

Guess what 100 years ago the bay was icefree, here's the vid to prove it......so much for 'global warming BS'.