Posted on 08/12/2020 9:21:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Konrad Steffen, director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), was working near Ilulissat on Saturday when he was reported missing, police said.
A rescue operation was launched, but ultimately abandoned without the 68-year-old researcher’s body being found.
“We have found signs that the person fell through a crack in the glacier,” police spokesman Brian Thomsen told local newspaper Sermitsiaq.
“An accident has probably occurred and it is highly probable that the person in question has passed away,” Thomsen added.
Fellow scientist Kathy Riklin said it seemed a snow bridge had collapsed under Steffen, causing him to plummet into the crevasse, Agence France-Presse reported.
The tragic accident occurred less than a mile from the research station Steffen established in 1990 — known as “Swiss Camp” — where he made an annual expedition
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Another Covid death..................../s
That sounds like that Freeper thread from the other day where Moses’ enemies were swallowed up by the earth.
bttt
That snow bridge simply would not have collapsed if we had quit burning fossil fuels.
“Tragic?” Not quite. Will he be missed? Well that depends on the concentration of carbon dioxide.....he has expended his....
Wow....KamAla was right...there IS a connection between Climate Change and health.
I swear I thought this was from the Bee. The sarcasm drips off this. It’s better than Heels Up running with/from Biden. Global Warming ain’t getting the Professor. You can’t make this sh!t up.
I always suspected these global warming alarmists had their heads up their crevasses.
Not very smart in two respects; his ‘research’ perpetuated the global warming fraud and anyone who has worked in and around glaciers or ice fields should know of the dangers of snow-covered crevasses.
Glacier hiking is a lot like trying to walk on water.
Tough to pull off for an extended time. [see foot only water skiing...]
I admit: I LOL’d
Even when justice fails, gravity still works.
The Rule of Law still predominates in some locales.
What are the odds?
I recall doctors being pushed off of bridges after the 2001 anthrax attacks (which PRE-DATED the 9-11 attacks!)
Hillary would say she came and saw and well he died! ha ha ha
Gravity outranks climate...
Huh. Same thing happened in the Bible when some people messed with God.
Awwww!
Gravity. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law!
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