Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek

A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.

Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures. “They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said.

Being True Believers in the Great Green Church of Glow-bull Warming, a minor consideration like a contrary evidence is a trivial matter to deal with:

“But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.”

Let’s see…”We can’t predict the effects that SHOULD be there as a part of glow-bull warming, so that lack of evidence itself supports our case.” Ohhhh-kay. Whatever.