The climate-panic tourists from the Polar Defense Project wanted to travelogue a kayak trip up to the North Pole to illustrate the devastating effects of global warming.

I hope they brought a .44 magnum (or more firepower) with them. Because they’re stuck – and if they come across a polar bear, the beast is not going to offer them an icy-cold Coke.

Tireless Tom Nelson has the story.

“We’re stuck” I have slept poorly. The floating ice, while thin, is so prevalent that, throughout the night, it grinds noisily against the side of the boat in a slightly alarming fashion — imagine someone scraping their nails across an old-fashioned blackboard.The then begins earlier than normal and, unusually, I am not woken by Robbie bounding into my room. Instead the ship’s engine roars to life earlier than normal – at around 5.30 – and the MV ‘Havsel’ begins to judder ominously. I clamber out of bed and scramble up to the bridge – all the ship’s crew are there, and they look serious. I look outside and I can see why. The sea is almost entirely congested with ice floes – I would estimate 80% plus of the sea is covered by them. There is a real risk that we could get stuck up here. We have drifted in the night into a much icier area than where we stopped last night. I wake up the team, and everyone groggily makes their way to the bridge. There’s a mixed reaction in the team to the prospect of getting stuck up here. Google Maps, 80.52397, 12.21224 After awaking to find their vessel frozen in ice the team are steaming around looking for a path that’s navigable by kayak. No paddling today. (By the way, you may recall that Jeremy Clarkson drove a truck to the North Pole last winter.)