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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

Swiss technicians are to use a special insulating foam to wrap up a glacier that has been shrinking under the summer sun.

Carlo Danioth, in charge of the slopes at the Andermatt resort in central Switzerland, says the Gurschen glacier is to be partially covered with 3,000 square metres of PVC foam from the beginning of May.

Mr Danioth says the aim is to halt the melting of the glacier, a phenomenon that has been attributed to global warming.

"If the trial is a success, we'll wrap the other part of the glacier too," he said.

He added that the ice-field was receding by about five metres a year.

A study published last year by Zurich University estimated that the country's glaciers had lost about a fifth of their surface area over the past 15 years.

The study, carried out using satellite data, also found that the rate of ice-loss was accelerating.

A number of other Swiss ski resorts are reported to be considering similar measures.

-AFP


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chlorine; climatechange; environuts; glacier; greenpeace; heatshield; meltingglacier; switzerland; whackoalert
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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...
1 posted on 03/21/2005 10:16:28 PM PST by Brian328i
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To: Brian328i

Glacier wrapper...new career idea.


2 posted on 03/21/2005 10:18:45 PM PST by socal_parrot (Das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Vergnuegen!)
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To: Brian328i

If this works does that mean we can pollute more, burn more fossil fuels and destroy more of the ozone?


3 posted on 03/21/2005 10:21:04 PM PST by Bouchart (I Will Crush You)
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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
4 posted on 03/21/2005 10:22:11 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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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.


5 posted on 03/21/2005 10:26:42 PM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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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.


6 posted on 03/21/2005 10:33:47 PM PST by EERinOK
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To: Brian328i

SAVE THE ICEWORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 03/21/2005 10:34:09 PM PST by EERinOK
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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?

8 posted on 03/21/2005 10:34:30 PM PST by Noachian (To Control the Judiciary The People Must First Control The Congress)
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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.


9 posted on 03/21/2005 10:49:26 PM PST by taxesareforever
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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.
10 posted on 03/21/2005 11:45:31 PM PST by Red Sea Swimmer (Tisha5765Bav)
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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.
11 posted on 03/21/2005 11:45:55 PM PST by Red Sea Swimmer (Tisha5765Bav)
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To: Brian328i

A million years from now, none of this will matter.


12 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.)
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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.


13 posted on 03/21/2005 11:57:25 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Brian328i

Sheesh, just save money & spray this stuff all over the glacier.

14 posted on 03/22/2005 12:00:41 AM PST by Troublemaker
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To: Brian328i

Where's the environmental impact report???


15 posted on 03/22/2005 12:06:09 AM PST by DB (©)
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To: DB
Why not hire Christo?

Is there an award for futile endeavors? If there is, heres a winner.
16 posted on 03/22/2005 12:16:24 AM PST by singletrack (..................................................................)
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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..."


17 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.)
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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.
18 posted on 03/22/2005 3:51:23 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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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.

19 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.)
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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...

There are probably hundreds if not thousands of species frozen in that glacier.

20 posted on 03/22/2005 4:59:03 AM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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