Al Gore’s self-touted, mouse size carbon footprint has just developed elephantitis.
MS Explorer, the “legendary polar expedition ship” owned by his pal G.A.P. Adventures CEO Bruce Poon Tip, which sank last week in the Antarctic has left a garguntan carbon foot on the ocean floor. And it’s a carbon footprint that’s harmful to penguins and other wildlife.
Little would have been known about the damage to the Antarctic’s fragile eco system from the sunken 75-metre vessel were it not for a team of Chilean scientists who sussed out the damage in its aftermath and reported their findings.
The Chilean scientists told the daily La Tercera that fuel from the eco cruise ship is now a five-kilometer long slick. The MS Explorer, star of the eco warrior, was powered by diesel. And while diesel is less polluting than crude oil, it still left a highly toxic environmental mess that could directly affect seals, sea lions, and other animals that inhabit the area.
