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.
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We live in crazy town.
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/
Gluten free!
That’s Biden’s favourite movie from what I hear.
It’s staggering.
They can overnight express on a jet and really help the climate
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.
I want a chunk that has a frozen P-38 in it.
“fury”
LOL !
Well it’s gonna melt soon anyway.... 😁
Alrighty, then.
How do they know it is 100,000 years old?
Fun and laughter have no place on the Left.
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.
Heck, I’d buy some to chill my Pappy VanWinkle Bourbon!
...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...”
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.";-)
Wow! Seems ice that old would be stale and moldy. Doesn’t it have best use by date?
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