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Climate Change - Man go's for a swim. World leaders inspired.


Man jumps in puddle as reported on the BBC webshyte.

An endurance swimmer has completed a 1km swim at the North Pole to highlight the effects of climate change.

Lewis Gordon Pugh, 37, swam for 18 minutes and 50 seconds in temperatures of -1.8C (28.7F), the coldest waters a human has swum in.

"I hope my swim will inspire world leaders to take climate change seriously," he said.

**So lets see, you go for a swim and hope that somehow you going for a swim will "inspire" world leaders to take climate change seriously.

How exactly is going for a swim going to inspire anyone to do anything? Man takes a chilly bath and of course all the worlds leaders are going to jump on the global warming bandwagon and fall into line. Or maybe, just maybe they will think that some publicity seeking twat is looking to get his name in the papers and ignore him.

But this comment I loved:

  • Describing the moment he jumped in, he said: "The water was absolutely black. It was like jumping into a dark black hole. It was frightening.
  • "The pain was immediate and felt like my body was on fire. I was in excruciating pain from beginning to end and I nearly quit on a few occasions."
Ok, lets recap here. Its the pole for fucks sake. Of course the water was bloody cold. If it were warm then global warming might be a tad more believeable. Oh and this self publicist Lewis Gordon Pugh states that its "a tragedy that it's possible to swim at the North Pole" - well there has always been water there as this link shows.

**Why is there never a hungry polar bear when you need one?

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