Hello. I’m Captain Antarctica.
I spent most of my early life teaching survival in the far corners of the Earth and then after my time in the Australian Army’s Special Forces I became an Anthropologist (someone who studies people – usually tribal people).
In 1995 I was a guest of the Swedish government, invited to teach survival in the Arctic at the First International Survival Symposium at Jukkasjarvi, Northern Sweden. There I fell in love with the polar regions of our world. Standing on my skis on a frozen river, 200km north of the Arctic circle, I thought to myself that in another life I would have chosen to be a Polar explorer.
There is something about the vastness and the quiet of the Poles that speaks to our souls. At night sitting in the arctic wilderness in front of a fire with my survival mate, Ray Mears, we sipped pine needle tea and chatted under the glow of the Aurora Borealis. It doesn’t get much better than that.
I returned to Australia, not known for its polar weather, and read everything I could about the Arctic and the Antarctic and then I went to Antarctica, to the Ross Ice Shelf. I decided to share what I learnt about Antarctica with other people in the hope that I can inspire the same love for the polar regions and our planet that I feel.
So welcome to Continent 7 – Antarctica
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![WEATHER MACHINES AND THE GREENING OF ANTARCTICA
‘Parts of Antarctica are turning green more quickly than previously thought, leaving scientists "shocked" at the impact of climate change in the region’ That was the headline from a recent article by Sky News, the Fox News equivalent in Australia.
In 1986, on the Antarctic Peninsula, a patch of vegetation covered an area of one square kilometre (0.6 sq mile). Thirty five years later that area has expanded to almost 12 square kilometres (7.5 square miles)
‘the pace of change has accelerated by more than 30% between 2016 and 2021 [showing] anthropogenic climate change... "has no limit in its reach".
So even Sky News is willing to admit that climate change is real and are allowing comments about human caused climate change. How things have changed.
In 2022, China was scorched by a searing heat wave that lasted more than 70 days, affecting more than 900 million people. That same year, more than 61,000 Europeans died from heat-related stress. In 2024, more brutal heat waves struck far and wide, the most harrowing of which killed 1,300 people during the annual hajj in Mecca, with temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F).
In Antarctica, the continent is also losing ice mass at a rate of about 150 billion tons per year, which contributes to sea level rise. I could go on but I’ll stop there.
Normally, the intellectually challenged just say…’It’s the weather’. But it gets better. For those same people who can’t admit that climate change is real and caused by humans, when faced with the massive intensification of the hurricanes hitting Florida due to climate change heating the ocean, there must be a simpler answer.
Yes, geoengineering with weather modification, using diabolical weather machines, probably owned, built and operated by ‘them’, that secret cabal of whoever we don’t like at the moment.
We are living in interesting times and it is evident now more than ever, that you can’t fix stupid.
Photo:Green Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: University of Exeter/PA
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