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Swiss glacier to get heat shield
ABC News Online (AU) ^
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005. 11:22am (AEDT)
Posted on 03/21/2005 10:16:27 PM PST by Brian328i
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Heh, wait till they later find out its damaging the environment or endangering some tiny insect/animal that thrives on the glacier during summer months...
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posted on
03/21/2005 10:16:28 PM PST
by
Brian328i
To: Brian328i
Glacier wrapper...new career idea.
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posted on
03/21/2005 10:18:45 PM PST
by
socal_parrot
(Das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Vergnuegen!)
To: Brian328i
If this works does that mean we can pollute more, burn more fossil fuels and destroy more of the ozone?
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posted on
03/21/2005 10:21:04 PM PST
by
Bouchart
(I Will Crush You)
To: Brian328i
Apparently PVC creates a lot of its own concerns. I would imagine that the amount needed to cover a glacier would be enormous.
What follows is a quote from a long article on PVC:
So what does all this mean? Is the PVC phase-out called for by Greenpeace justified? What would be the economic implications of such a phase-out?
At this point, we are left with more questions than answers. Greenpeace and the International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes have responded to significant environmental problems resulting from a class of industrial compounds with a call for their elimination. There is merit to addressing the problem of chlorine-related pollution and health problems in a broad manner as they are doing. One cannot ignore the million-plus pounds of vinyl chloride gas or the million-plus pounds of the plasticizer DOP emitted into the atmosphere each year. Or the 15% of cadmium emissions from municipal solid waste incineration that comes from PVC products. Or the evidence (controversial though it may be) linking PVC production and disposal to dioxin, PCB, and furan emissions.
http://www.buildinggreen.com/features/pvc/pvc.cfm
To: Brian328i
what is genius is before the soviet union fell it was "NO NUKES" well then we won the cold war and started dismantling our nukes.
So the souless needed a god to chase after that couldnt be caught so it became.... "save the planet" something that is so large and so etherial that no one would or could prove it didnt need saving.
Global warming is just a sect of the secular piety of their religion. For some its the rain forrest, others the harp seal.
But funny, you dont see the great unwashed flying to iran to dust off their " NO NUKES" signs do you....? Now why is that? Hmmmm
Its all a way of displaying your piety to your friends, So you can identify with a cause. Of course spending your time trying to "save a chunk of ice" is just a natural way of worshiping the god you have created. Nothing more/ Nothing less.
To: Brian328i
When's their next windy season?
head's up on forcast of 3000 sq meters of chunks and pieces
of pvc foam flying through to litter the pristine alps.
What a waste of time.
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posted on
03/21/2005 10:33:47 PM PST
by
EERinOK
To: Brian328i
SAVE THE ICEWORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/21/2005 10:34:09 PM PST
by
EERinOK
To: Brian328i
Swiss technicians are to use a special insulating foam to wrap up a glacier that has been shrinking under the summer sun. So, what happens on the underside of the PVC foam when the ice doesn't have access to natural sunlight any longer?
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posted on
03/21/2005 10:34:30 PM PST
by
Noachian
(To Control the Judiciary The People Must First Control The Congress)
To: Brian328i
They may find it easier to try and turn the sun off. Or maybe they could cause a huge nuclear blast and change the tilt of the earth. Or maybe they want to tell us this tale while they have their mouth full of peanut butter.
To: Brian328i
This is blatant attempt by certain Swiss people to capitalize on the fear mongering associated with the Global Warming scare. Lots of photos and press releases will accompany this glacial shrink-wrapping exercise. This will bolster the forces of the Global warming scaremongers. Many of the people pushing this agenda are based in Switzerland.
This strategic maneuver by them is not surprising.
To: Brian328i
This is a blatant attempt by certain people to capitalize on the fear mongering associated with the Global Warming scare. Lots of photos and press releases will accompany this glacial shrink-wrapping exercise. This will bolster the forces of the Global warming scaremongers. Many of the people pushing this agenda are based in Switzerland.
This strategic maneuver by them is not surprising.
To: Brian328i
A million years from now, none of this will matter.
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posted on
03/21/2005 11:49:23 PM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: Brian328i
Don't glaciers always melt in the summer? In 1960 on a trip to Switzerland I visited the Rhone Glacier. They had made a tunnel inside of the glacier and you could walk deep into the center of it. There was a wooden path to walk on and the water that flowed to the Rhone River could be heard trickling all around you.
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posted on
03/21/2005 11:57:25 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Brian328i
Sheesh, just save money & spray this stuff all over the glacier.
To: Brian328i
Where's the environmental impact report???
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:06:09 AM PST
by
DB
(©)
To: DB
Why not hire Christo?
Is there an award for futile endeavors? If there is, heres a winner.
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posted on
03/22/2005 12:16:24 AM PST
by
singletrack
(..................................................................)
To: Brian328i
Ice cubes melt in the sun, any kindergardener knows that. But "scientists"?
"Thinking themselves wise, they become as fools, and worship creation rather than the creator..."
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posted on
03/22/2005 3:44:23 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: EERinOK
Egads, what a thought of all those fluorocarbons being used. In California we've seen the environmental devastation which these ecology advocates can cause. They colluded with the oil companies to add refinery waste products (MTBE) into an all-new, expensive, reformulated gasoline, supposedly to clean up the air, but it ended up terribly polluting the water supply, and permanently closing down at least one town.
To: spodefly
A million years from now, none of this will matter. I really don't think it matters today. Just more ecologists crapping on the landscape. Forest fires in California, 15 acres of plastic wrap littering the Alps, it's all just more mindless garbage from the flatworm worshipers.
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posted on
03/22/2005 4:38:48 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Brian328i
Heh, wait till they later find out its damaging the environment or endangering some tiny insect/animal that thrives on the glacier during summer months...There are probably hundreds if not thousands of species frozen in that glacier.
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posted on
03/22/2005 4:59:03 AM PST
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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