This is the glacier. On the left is from 1986. Photo on the right is this month,.....33 years later.......only 11 more years before Iceland opens its first awesome water park...until December when it becomes ice again!
Posted on 08/20/2019 6:08:41 PM PDT by Morgana
The priorities of Iceland’s political leaders are all messed up.
The small European nation recently drew international scrutiny for its nearly 100-percent abortion rate for unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome.
The deadly discriminatory practice drew massive outrage from across the world, but Iceland lawmakers did not react by passing protections for unborn babies. Quite the opposite, earlier this year, they voted to expand abortions.
Then, on Sunday, Prime Minister Katrin Jokobsdottier joined other political leaders, scientists and environmental activists to hold a “funeral” for a melting glacier, The Connect News reports.
The Okjökull, or Ok, glacier in Borgarfjörður, Iceland, was estimated to be about 700 years old. Environmental activists described it as the first casualty in the climate change crisis and warned that more glaciers soon could disappear as well.
“We have to accept that what is happening is not right,” Jokobsdottier said. “It has to be stopped. All the necessary steps need to be taken for this.”
The government paid to erect a bronze plaque at the site of the “dead” glacier, according to the report. It reads, in part: “Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you will know if we did it.”
Nonprofit Quarterly reports NASA has monitored the glacier since 1901 when it measured 38 square kilometers; five years ago, geologist Oddur Sigurðsson said the glacier had almost completely melted and was dead.
About 100 people participated in the ceremony, including a group of children who helped install the plaque, the AP reports.
No matter what one’s opinion about environmental issues, it is tragic to see a glacier – an inanimate object – treated with greater reverence and mourning than the life of a child.
In 2017, CBS News shocked the world with a report about Iceland’s near 100-percent abortion rate for babies with Down syndrome. Just a handful of children with Down syndrome have been born in Iceland in the past decade. Two are born each year, on average, but the rest are killed in the womb. Most of the children who are born with Down syndrome have mothers who decided not to have prenatal screening tests.
Ignoring the outrage, the political leaders in Iceland took a step to expand abortions even further this year. In May, they passed a law allowing unborn babies to be aborted for any reason up to 22 weeks of pregnancy, the Iceland Monitor reports.
The legislation ends the requirement that underage girls have a parent’s permission before an abortion, and adopts euphemistic new language that disguises the true nature of the life-destroying practice, according to the Iceland Review.
At the time, Prime Minister Jakobsdóttir said she would have gone even further and supported a no-limits abortion law.
“This bill is a step toward increasing the liberty of women in this country, and I whole-heartedly support it and would, myself, have supported having no time limit,” Jakobsdóttir said, previously. “But I consider this bill a certain compromise of attitudes, and I will support it because I consider it an immense progressive step toward individual liberty.”
This is the same woman who so deeply mourned the “death” of the glacier on Sunday. So much compassion for a melting block of ice but none for a baby in the womb.
Nonprofit Quarterly reports NASA has monitored the glacier since 1901 when it measured 38 square kilometers
I guess we’ve mastered time travel. Trump is amazing.
History didn't start yesterday, kids.
The glacier is actually the latest in a long line of glaciers to succumb to ... wait for it ... the Inter-Glacial period we are in that began 12k-14k years ago.
An excess of compassion will lead to a weaker species, genetically speaking.
Aboriginal tribes were aware of this and left "special" children to perish.
Harsh it may be but mother nature needs the wolf to control the deer.
As we thwart the wolf from its genetic cleansing duties, we must become the wolf.
I always though human beings were better than animals. Boy was I wrong!
All genes want is replication to sustain their "life".
The uncaring way of the gene code. Onward to immortality, super men!
The Democrat craves a mutilated baby.
Another sign that the last ice age is finally coming to an end... Or, maybe it’s just heat of summer in Iceland. The truth global warming alarmist hate to admit. In a few thousand years, all of the ice will eventually melt. That typically happens between ice ages and if we’re really lucky, we’ll never need to endure another ice age.
Seven hundred year sold? Seems like very very very young for a geologic formation.
This is the glacier. On the left is from 1986. Photo on the right is this month,.....33 years later.......only 11 more years before Iceland opens its first awesome water park...until December when it becomes ice again!
Heat from deep inside the earth is also causing Greenland’s glaciers to melt.
https://www.newsweek.com/puzzling-heat-deep-inside-earth-melting-greenlands-glaciers-786943
https://www.inverse.com/article/46347-nasa-discovered-why-greenland-glaciers-melt-differently
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/4/11/17219020/greenland-ice-melt-climate-change
EVil nation who have inbreeding problem punish their own children with down syndrome instead of restraining themselves. THen again, there was this Icelandic professor at my girlfriend university who was a feminist and invited multiple men first dates to have sex with her at parties every weekend... I mean, it is pagan time over there, and pagan witches do what pagan witches, clean up their messes by killing the first and most important evidence of their decadence, their own kids.
Reminds me of these idiots
EarthFirst Mourning Loss of a Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
but none for a baby in the womb.
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Better put a bronze plaque on it.
Gonna need a lot of bronze.
Does their geothermal or their volcanoes have any effect on the poor little glacier?
The Hippocritic Code (sic):
In upper-division Genetics lab, I was once horrified to hear my classmates proclaim the need for compulsory sterilization of all genetically-deficient humans, paricularly Down’s Syndrome persons.
These were pre-med students in the main. I looked toward the professor, expecting some sort of rebuttal. He just smiled, and nodded in agreement.
That was in 1978.
I hope you do not profess to believe in a Creator or unalienable rights (you know, like the Founding Fathers)...
... If you are right, then you have no more rights than any other would-be “wolf” - which latter can eliminate you if it so chooses.
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