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Startup sparks fury for shipping 100,000-year-old Arctic ice to chill cocktails in Dubai
New York Post ^ | March 1, 2024 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 03/01/2024 2:51:18 PM PST by billorites

Greenland start-up is being accused of doing titanic damage to the environment by shipping ice from glaciers over 100,000 years old to be used in cocktails served at high-priced bars in Dubai.

Arctic Ice, which started this year, touts its product as the “oldest and purest” ice in the world as it is harvested from icebergs in Greenland — a distance of more than 4,730 miles from the Middle Eastern megalopolis.

Though the makers say they hope to highlight global warming’s effects on ice sheets with the their business model — and even stop sea levels from rising — the scheme is getting a frosty reception.

“Guys. This is nuts,” one person wrote in the comments section on Arctic Ice’s Instagram page in response to a promotional video. “The planet is freaking burning.”

The company’s website hammers home the point that the ice destined to chill drinks in glitzy watering holes halfway around the world is taken from icebergs already naturally detached from the glacier and floating in Greenland’s Nuuk fjord.

“We do not take any ice from the glacier. Millions or billions of tons of ice breaks off the glaciers every year,” the site stresses. “Our very limited production thereby has a very insignificant impact.”

More so, Arctic Ice argues that by using icebergs that would otherwise melt into the ocean, it is preventing the ice from contributing to rising sea levels.

A selected chunk of iceberg is carefully inspected before being hoisted with a crane onto the company’s ship, where it is splintered into smaller pieces with sanitized chainsaws and hammers, and packed into insulted food-grade crates for transport.

Samples are then taken from each iceberg and sent to a third-party lab to be tested for the presence of any potentially harmful ancient microorganisms or bacteria.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; cocktails; dubai; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; ice; iceberg; science
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To: stylin19a

We live in crazy town.


21 posted on 03/01/2024 3:07:37 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: billorites

Articles from 2011 to 2016.

Are You Cool Enough For Iceberg Ice?
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/06/14/are-you-cool-enough-for-iceberg-ice/

The Oldest Cocktails You’ll Ever Drink
https://moosecurrry.blogspot.com/2014/05/iceberg-beer-cocktail-recipes-newfoundland.html

Cocktails with… Iceberg Gin (from Canada!)
https://summerfruitcup.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/iceberggin/

Sipping Scotch Chilled by an Iceberg
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/glenmorangie-and-glacier/495968/


22 posted on 03/01/2024 3:07:59 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: sphinx

Gluten free!


23 posted on 03/01/2024 3:08:17 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dynachrome

That’s Biden’s favourite movie from what I hear.


24 posted on 03/01/2024 3:08:49 PM PST by xp38
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It’s staggering.


25 posted on 03/01/2024 3:09:18 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: billorites

They can overnight express on a jet and really help the climate


26 posted on 03/01/2024 3:09:37 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: billorites

I’d think Antarctic ice would be both older and purer, albeit much more expensive to harvest. Unlike Greenland’s, its icebergs start much farther from any infrastructure to support their harvesting. But that distance would also be from any airborne industrial origin pollution, hence greater purity.


27 posted on 03/01/2024 3:09:37 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: billorites
Do the Environazis have any clue how *big* a glacier is, compared to a bunch of cocktail glasses.
And herein lies the rub, Leftists are really poor at math.

28 posted on 03/01/2024 3:12:43 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: billorites

I want a chunk that has a frozen P-38 in it.


29 posted on 03/01/2024 3:12:47 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: billorites

“fury”

LOL !


30 posted on 03/01/2024 3:14:10 PM PST by tomkat
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To: billorites

Well it’s gonna melt soon anyway.... 😁


31 posted on 03/01/2024 3:20:39 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: billorites
titanic damage to the environment

Alrighty, then.

32 posted on 03/01/2024 3:24:46 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: billorites

How do they know it is 100,000 years old?


33 posted on 03/01/2024 3:24:59 PM PST by Fungi
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Fun and laughter have no place on the Left.


34 posted on 03/01/2024 3:27:49 PM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: billorites
Brings to mind expired sea salt:

Found on r/funny : r/terriblefacebookmemes
35 posted on 03/01/2024 3:31:56 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: billorites

I believe it was Popular Mechanics or one of those magazines that 60 years ago mentioned plans to tow ice bergs from the Antarctic to Arabia for water and irrigation.

It appears that plan was quite popular in the 1970s.

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-hauling-icebergs-could-help-sustain-world-s-thirstiest-regions-ncna898036


36 posted on 03/01/2024 3:36:22 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: billorites

Heck, I’d buy some to chill my Pappy VanWinkle Bourbon!


37 posted on 03/01/2024 3:39:09 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: billorites

...the ice destined to chill drinks in glitzy watering holes halfway around the world is taken from icebergs already naturally detached from the glacier and floating in Greenland’s Nuuk fjord.

“Nuuk, Nuuk...”

“Who’s there?”

“Gerghen Kerghen, from across the fjord in Schveeden...”


38 posted on 03/01/2024 3:40:22 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: sonova
Hahah. Right.

Reminds one of the old adage about hiking in the mountains of Vermont, "Don't drink the water from clear mountain streams. The moose and bears upstream pee in them.";-)

39 posted on 03/01/2024 3:43:22 PM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: billorites

Wow! Seems ice that old would be stale and moldy. Doesn’t it have best use by date?


40 posted on 03/01/2024 3:46:37 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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