Community | October 14, 2008 | 5 comments

There’s gold in them melting glaciers

source: http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/10/06/global_warming_profiteers/index.html

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Is it wrong to make a buck on the end of the world?

Like most globe-trotting jaunts, Betchart Expeditions’ Warming Island tour was designed to appeal to potential customers’ desire to see new places: “Join us on this wonderful adventure of discovery!” But Warming Island isn’t just new in the generic unfamiliar-territory sense. It actually is new — younger than Beanie Babies, Miley Cyrus and George W. Bush’s presidency. Following decades of climbing temperatures in the Arctic, Warming Island calved off the east coast of Greenland three years ago, like an ice chunk crumbling from a melting snow pile.

Going to Warming Island is your best chance to see the effects of global warming up close and personal, says explorer Dennis Schmitt, who discovered the island on an ocean voyage in 2005. “Satellite images show that in 2002, this island wasn’t there, and in the year 2005, it broke away,” says Schmitt, who serves as a guide on board one of Betchart’s vessels. “On this trip, you can sail right through the area and see what is left of the ice shelf. You can see a geological event that just happened.” The voyages are also designed to raise awareness of climate change, though Schmitt hastens to add, “We don’t have a doctrinaire view where we’re trying to sell people on global warming. There’s nothing politically correct about this.”
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5 comments // There’s gold in them melting glaciers

  • CreditFigaro
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      CreditFigaro  

    • Well there are a bunch of methane pipes being revealed by the melting glaciers.... why don't we just harvest it instead of letting it rape our ozone layer?

      There, money AND an aversion to the global crisis.

      I am so frustrated with the obliviousness of our leadership.

    • 3 years ago
  • starr111
  • HolyCity2012
  • PajamaDan
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      PajamaDan  

    • Oh crap. Here they go.
      Let the glaciers die, pave the bare ground and suck the land dry. This is what WE care about; wealth, ourselves, stuff.
      Sorry to say it, but Earth's health is more important than oil and gold.
      If we don't drown from the glacial meltdown,...
      We'll drown in our own wanton greed.

    • 3 years ago
  • BenDorries
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