GLOBAL WARMING TREK ENDED BY EXTREME COLD

George Orwell understood how the global warming enthusiasts are going to react to the increasingly common evidence that the recent period of climate warming is over, and that the global climate will soon start cooling off: they will use "Newspeak" to proclaim that cold is warm. Here's an example (Hat tip: Tim Blair).

Two global warming protesters, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, called off their planned North Pole trek -- because of extreme cold.

The AP reported:

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.

The women are experienced Polar trekkers, but the cold was too much for them:

Then there was the cold — quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.

"My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said.

The point here is not really that the women were naive and foolish, but rather to see how they explain the extremely cold conditions that caused them to call off their global warming demonstration:

The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek across the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.

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

Yes, that's right. Global warming causes extreme cold. Slavery is freedom . . .

The eco-green religion is so strong, that not even getting frostbite will convince its devotees that it really is cold outside.