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CRUEL ICE IN RETREAT
Global warming is turning Greenland green again:
Stefan Magnusson lives at the foot of a giant, melting glacier. Some think he’s living on the brink of a cataclysm. He believes he’s on the cusp of creation.
The 49-year-old reindeer rancher says a warming trend in Greenland over the past decade has caused the glacier on his farm to retreat 300 feet, revealing land that hasn’t seen the light of day for hundreds of years, if not more. Where ice once gripped the earth, he says, his reindeer now graze on wild thyme amid the purple blooms of Niviarsiaq flowers ...
"We are seeing genesis by the edge of the glacier,” he says.
Genesis? The way Al Gore sees it, those happy reindeer and thriving vegetation represent the apocalypse:
In former Vice President Al Gore’s recent film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the melting of Greenland’s ice cap, along with a similar cap in the Antarctic, is portrayed as one of the greatest threats of global warming. If the layers of ice and snow holding billions of tons of water were to melt, scientists warn that global sea levels would rise by 40 feet, submerging lower Manhattan, the Netherlands and much of California.
But to many of the people who live here in Greenland, the warming trend is a boon, not a threat.
Lay off with the environmental imperialism, Al! Let the people of Greenland live ice-free! Meanwhile, Al warns that democracy is under attack, which isn’t exactly news. Except that Gore is more worried about TV networks than terrorism:
The former presidential candidate said television networks in the world’s biggest and most powerful democracies must do more to foster debate, which he said was crucial for democracy to flourish.
He may have a point; after all, the last time Al Gore was involved in a series of debates, it resulted in the election of George W. Bush.
UPDATE. Mr. Hackenbacker:
My God! All the polar bears will be dying of obesity! They’ll become a species of floe potatoes as they’ll only have to reach over to gnaw on a passing reindeer. Soon they’ll be too big to fit through all the ice-holes, and then the eskimos will all starve because their fish holes are all clogged with fat lazy bears.
must do more to foster debate
If he’s serious, the MSM would start looking towards conservative anchors and reporters.
But of course, that’s not what he means.
Gore simply wants more Lefties attacking the Bush Administration - after all, that’s what passes for “fostering debate” in the universities.
Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 08 28 at 03:22 AM • permalinkWhere ice once gripped the earth, he says, his reindeer now graze on wild thyme amid the purple blooms of Niviarsiaq flowers ...
My God! All the polar bears will be dying of obesity! They’ll become a species of floe potatoes as they’ll only have to reach over to gnaw on a passing reindeer. Soon they’ll be too big to fit through all the ice-holes, and then the eskimos will all starve because their fish holes are all clogged with fat lazy bears.
Won’t anyone think of the bears?!?!
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 08 28 at 03:25 AM • permalink#7 - Deceptive naming isn’t exclusive to Greenland. I found it all over the lower parts of Western Australia: nobody in Esperance spoke Esperanto, Albany was utterly devoid of Albanians, and you can forget about widgies in Widgiemooltha.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 28 at 03:33 AM • permalinkMemo to MSM media organisations:
‘Former Vice-President Al Gore’ I can stomach...just.
But ‘Former presidential candidate’...well enough already.
That corpse has well and truly been worked over by the maggots.
He had a snowflakes chance.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 08 28 at 03:42 AM • permalinkABC Brisbane presenters have viewed a screening of Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Giving away free tickets to those who they think should see it…
1. 5 4WD owners (SUVs)
2. 5 People who have never looked at the energy star rating on white goods they have purchased.I’m waiting for them to ask for those who think the whole thing is a crock of shit, then I’ll phone.
Wonder what the concensus will be after the screening for their listeners?
Oh, and this morning on ABC radio some ‘scientist’ frothing about running out of oil.
*sigh*
I have to move closer to work, one and a half hours of this crap each day will drive me crazy(er).#15 Kae - are you saying the ABC is promoting this film? The brain dead FM stations are always giving free stuff away for promos. But the ABC?
I think this needs further investigation. Promos could be construed as advertising which is against the ABC charter. Perhaps the Government will be forced to close down the ABC over this matter. Shame really. Sheesh.
Not sure if Tim’s already mentioned this, but those dwindling Greeland glaciers “have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study published today, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.”
The study covered 247 glaciers, and is “the most comprehensive” ever done of Greelandish ice sheets.
So, the shrinkage started about 130 years ago. Hmm. Wasn’t that right after Bush was elected?
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 08 28 at 05:46 AM • permalinkMethinks that if Algore stopped talking so much, “global warming” would be reduced in direction proportion to the lower amount of hot air he injects into the atmosphere.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 28 at 09:47 AM • permalinkWon’t someone please think of the bear testicles?
You can if you like, fidens. I have other interests. ;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 28 at 11:23 AM • permalinkThe name Greenland was certainly a case of real estate advertising. People managed to farm there for quite some time, however. If the glaciers are melting I wonder if any archaeology plans are in the works?
And speaking of reindeer, the local feed store and saddle shop has reindeer hides for sale. Beautiful (if way beyond my budget) soft tanned leather and the fur (okay, not technically *fur*) is as soft and plush, I felt anything so nice that *wasn’t* fur.
Aw, Gore’s just sore ‘cause his lame cable channel is such a market place dud.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 28 at 03:43 PM • permalink”...scientists warn that global sea levels would rise by 40 feet, submerging lower Manhattan, the Netherlands and much of California."
I’m trying, and failing, to see the downside in this.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 08 28 at 06:19 PM • permalinkthe last time Al Gore was involved in a series of debates, it resulted in the election of George W. Bush
ROFL!
That’s gonna leave a mark. :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 08 28 at 07:34 PM • permalinkSaltydog-- but you gotta beware the reefs in Idaho…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 28 at 08:12 PM • permalinkSo more arable land gets created, resulting in more agricultural production, hence more food, and the Left is upset about that? I guess I can see their point. I mean if we can eventually put all of Greenland under cultivation, Paul Ehrlich’s
hopeprediction that we’ll all starve to death by 1980 will be a conplete crock of shit!Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 28 at 10:51 PM • permalinkCorn and grapes? No, Greenland never got that warm. Wheat and Barley yes.
Concord grapes were known to grow up around New Foundland at the time. No word on wine grapes per se.
BTW, the glaciers in Greenland are melting faster now than they had before. Except for the ones along the western range, which are growing.
Posted by mythusmage on 2006 08 29 at 03:29 AM • permalink>> ”...scientists warn that global sea levels
>> would rise by 40 feet, submerging lower
>> Manhattan, the Netherlands and much of California.”> I’m trying, and failing, to see the downside > in this. Posted by Andrea Harris,
> Administrator on 2006 08 28 at 06:19 PM • permalinkHow hard did you try ?
Not familiar with the location of every Australian state capital in relation to the coast ?
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