Idiot peddles climate fraud to children
STONY PLAIN — Robert Swan is the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles, but he's worried no one will be able to follow in his footsteps.[By the way, if this guy's sunburn was caused by the "ozone hole", what caused this Antarctic sunburn in 1914?]
"I might end up being the last person to do it," he told students in Stony Plain on Friday. "At the rate we're warming up our world, there won't be ice to walk on."
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It involved a rather unpleasant 70-day journey. Swan got a laugh from the crowd when he told them about a particularly unpleasant aspect of travelling in -76 C. Sweat freezes under clothing.
"I'll tell you what, boys and girls, I do not enjoy having ice in my underpants. It's a bit tricky."
More seriously, though, by the time he made his trek, human-caused damage to the environment affected him personally. His journey to the South Pole was made under the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. As a result, his eye colour changed permanently, from dark blue to light blue, and the skin on his face blistered, then peeled off.
From a description of the diary of one of the members of Shackleton's 1914 expedition:[And why this caution about Arctic sunburn?]On 12 November, Hussey records his first wash since leaving the Endurance, and the effects of polar sunburn: 'My nose & face are peeling as though I'd been at Margate for a month'.
...the face must be protected with a special shield, or heavily greased, to prevent sunburn. Goggles, too, must be worn all day outdoors as a precaution against snow blindness from the intense glare.
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The highest UV rating at the South Pole station was 4. That's with the ozone at full holyiness.
For comparison today in Sacramento under the full thickness of temperate ozone protection the UV rating is 5.
Incredibly, I can walk out into the full blaze of the sun without eye goggles, or face covering of any kind, and suffer no adverse effect.
It's all about two things:
1) altitude -- Antarctica is high -- less atmosphere between you and the sun -- very common in mountains areas from pole-to-pole
2) Reflectivity -- Antarctica is covered with guess what snow and ice both of which are very good at reflecting light (including long-wave UV)--- again nothing new here -- happens to skiers, mountaineers and beach goers all the time.
The above is why we invented Zinc Oxide -- aka Glacier Cream -- see pictures from the 50's of the pasty white-faces on Edmund Hillary and Antarctic IGY Scientists
But help is on the way through technology -- Fashionistas please note --- nano-particle Zinc Oxide Glacier Cream is nearly colorless yet still blocks UV very efectively
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